is the point where Iblis finds an opportunity to mislead man into becoming an ungrateful servant of God. As a result, he fails to turn ingratitude into gratitude. Every incident of ungratefulness is made

gratefulness would bring him. Remembrance is a Thinking Process Of the admonitions given in the language of commands in the Quran, one is of that for which the expression ‘remembrance of God’ has been used. This

This command appears in several verses of the Quran. One of the verses exhorts believers to “remember God often.” (33:41) Remembering (zikr) is a meaningful reality, not just a turn of phrase. It is a fact

human condition to a plane on which the mind is focused on the higher, non-material realities of a godly existence. The opposite of spirituality is materialism, a course followed all too often in this world

nonmaterial things, is regarded as being spiritual or godly. The latter is one who obeys the injunction of the Quran: O people, be devoted servants of God. THE QURAN, 3: 79 A materialistic person is kindled

For him, even seeing things in another’s possession, occasions an outpouring of his gratefulness to God from the innermost recesses of his heart. A materially-minded person sees only the creation, while

stir up enmity and hatred among you by means of wine and gambling, and to keep you from the remembrance of God, and from your prayers. Will you not abstain from them?” (5:90,91) When this verse of the Quran

” The God-fearing treats others best Maamar, who belonged to the next generation after the Companions, tells us that the latter used often to say: “Your greatest well-wisher is he who fears God with regard

God-Oriented Life The meaning that life took on for the Prophet after the Truth came to him can be ascertained from these words: “Nine things the Lord has commanded me. Fear of God in private and in public;

me; and forgive those who wrong me; and that my silence should be meditation; and my words remembrance of God; and my vision keen observation.” (Jami‘ al-Usul, Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari, hadith no. 9317)

Unity of God is a truth, arrived at intuitively, and is plain to every man of common sense, unless he perverts himself by the different prejudices which he receives from his environment. Islam is thus

this new man is made clear by the following hadith: Nine things the Lord has commanded me: Fear of God in private and in public; Justness, whether in anger or in calmness; Moderation in both poverty and

deprive me; and forgiving those who wrong me; and making of my silence meditation; and my words remembrance of God; and taking a lesson from my observation. (Razin) This hadith gives a complete picture of

THE WORD OF GODFrom The Scriptures The Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between CE 610 and 632. It is a book that brings glad

The hilly and desert world of ancient Makkah was a natural training ground for the realization of God; the entire panorama of nature was an encouragement to man to remember Him. The only sign of human

stone mosque, the Ka‘bah, built by Abraham and Ishmael. Here man could enter and engage in the remembrance of God. In this atmosphere, the children of Ishmael were miraculously provided with water from the

is praise, or admiration of God. It is a tribute of the most sublime sentiments, expressed in human words and offered to God. Praise means being moved at the sight of God’s craftsmanship and spontaneously

spontaneously expressing one’s realization of His perfection. “God, all praise is due to You. You are chaste and exalted. God, count me among the believers, and raise me not up blind like those who failed to acknowledge

perceive Your beauty.” Praise is constant remembrance of God in this manner, in Arabic or any other language.The AngelsAmongst the multitudes of beings created by God in His omnipotence are creatures of great

A SIMILAR WORLDThe good fortune of finding a place in God’s neighbourhood in the eternal life of the Hereafter will be based totally on merit. God’s neighbourhood is like a universal garden. In this universal

made God their supreme concern in the life of this world. Their thinking and feelings have all been devoted to God. Their mornings as well as their evenings have been filled with the remembrance of God

God. These are the fortunate souls who will be selected to live in the neighbourhood of God. A SIMILAR WORLD God created two similar worlds: one, the present world for trial, and the other, future world

The good fortune of finding a place in God’s neighbourhood in the eternal life of the Hereafter will be based totally on merit. God’s neighbourhood is like a universal garden. In this universal garden

made God their supreme concern in the life of this world. Their thinking and feelings have all been devoted to God. Their mornings as well as their evenings have been filled with the remembrance of God

God. These are the fortunate souls who will be selected to live in the neighbourhood of God.A SIMILAR WORLDGod created two similar worlds: one, the present world for trial, and the other, future world of

created the jinn and mankind only so that they might worship Me. —THe QURAN, 51:56 After belief in God and the Prophet, four practices enjoy the status of pillars of Islam—fasting, prayer, zakat (almsgiving)

drink, but rising above the material world so that man may come in contact with God. Prayer, in spirit, is remembrance of God. Zakat, in reality, is a form of sacrifice meant to underline those ethical values

greatest preacher of truth, the Prophet Abraham, also necessarily entails sacrifice in the cause of God. Understanding and acceptance of these four pillars, as symbols of the fundamental parts of Islam,