receive from God on a larger scale. According to a tradition of the Prophet: “One who helped in removing the pain and trouble of another in this world shall have his trouble and pain removed by God on the Day

difficulty eased by God in this world as well as in the Hereafter. One who kept another’s defects and negative points a secret shall have such negative points of his own kept secret by God in this world and

and as well as in the Hereafter. God helps people so long as they help their brothers.” (Sunan Abu Dawood 4946) This teaching of Islam has made human service, a matter of personal interest for everyone

basic requirement to understand the scriptures in depth is God realization. When one finds religion at the level of realization, one is endowed by God with the wisdom to be able to understand the deeper meaning

their own pre-conceptions. When one finds religion at the level of realization, one is endowed by God with the wisdom to be able to understand the deeper meaning of the scriptures. They begin to interpret

appear to follow Islam but actually stray far from its spirit. They fail to differentiate between Godsent religion and man-made interpretation. One great loss created by these additions to the original Islam

Bible as the Garden of Eden, and in the Quran as jannah, or Paradise. According to the Quran, when God Almighty created the first pair of Adam and Eve and settled them in Paradise, He said to them: “O Adam

nature. It is a part of the creation plan of God and no one can change this status of the two genders.  Gender equality is a part of the creation plan of God and no one can change this status of the two

Bible as the Garden of Eden, and in the Quran as jannah, or Paradise. According to the Quran, when God Almighty created the first pair of Adam and Eve and settled them in Paradise, He said to them: “O Adam

nature. It is a part of the creation plan of God and no one can change this status of the two genders.  Gender equality is a part of the creation plan of God and no one can change this status of the two

discipline in adhering to God’s commands, the case of the Khawarij comes to mind. Then why were they removed from the mainstream of Islam? Was it because while being strictly observant of God’s commands themselves

belong to this sect call themselves al-Sharah, which means those who sell themselves for the sake of God’s religion. Members of this sect identify themselves with a group of people referred to in the Quran

arbitrator, while the Khawarij believed that he should have instead consulted the Quran, the Book of God for decision. It would not be right to say that the Khawarij were sensitive in matters of religion

The Creation Plan of God The Quran, being a preserved book, is a reliable source to know God’s creation plan. A study of the Quran informs us that the plan according to which God created human beings is

the prophets was always the individual, and not any sort of socio-political system. According to God’s creation plan, the establishment of an ideal social system at the collective level in the world is

society can be established only in Paradise. The status of the present world is of a selection ground. God’s will is that, in the present world, such righteous individuals be selected who would be deserving

man is brought to the position where he accepts God and the Hereafter as at least possible truths. The purpose of using logic and evidence concerning God and the Hereafter is that man be brought to that

accept the existence of God and the Hereafter as the basis of a complete worldview. When a person reaches this stage, the doors of his nature open up. Recognizing the existence of God and the Hereafter as

as fundamental truths, he accepts them. Every man has the ‘eye’ to ‘see’ God and the Hereafter, but the veil of conditioning lies over this ‘eye’. Logical evidence destroys this conditioning or mental block

this realization, whereas believing in God and the Hereafter at a natural level is its ultimate stage. The purpose of using rational arguments on the subject of God and the Hereafter is only to remove the

brought to the point where he accepts the reality of God and the Hereafter at least as a probable truth. The use of argument and logic on the question of God and the Hereafter is meant to assist man to reach

reach the intellectual level where he is willing to accept the existence of God and the Hereafter as an ideology. When man reaches this state, the door of his nature is opened to such acceptance. He comes

Makkah. The main goal of Islam is that every individual attain God-realization, everyone become a rabbani person—a devoted servant of God in worship and in ethics. The present world has been created

requirements of the test, there will always be unfavourable conditions. According to the creation plan of God, the ideal world will be created in Heaven. In the present world, man’s task is to prove himself worthy

system in the present world is like trying to build Paradise in the present world, which according to God’s plan is not possible at all. The concept of Islam regarding social system is that if a system exists

them until there is no more [religious] persecution, and religion belongs wholly to God: if they desist, then surely God is watchful of what they do. THE QURAN 8: 39 THIS verse has two parts. The same point

possessing political power. This sort of coercion was opposed to the scheme of Nature devised by God. Under this coercive system, people could not do anything at all without the monarch’s consent. Ordinary

simply had no freedom whatsoever. The situation was akin to Communist rule under the Soviet Union. God wanted this unnatural system of political coercion to end and for the whole of human life to run according