testifies to the fact that God is its Creator. I find other claims to be without concrete foundation. Whatever arguments or opposing opinions have been expressed to propagate this theory have proved erroneous

research. One of my early works on this subject include the book God Arises: Evidence of God in Nature and Science. It establishes the existence of God according to modern scientific findings. It has been translated

21.WHAT IS ACTUALLY WITHIN MAN’S CONTROL?Natural laws will always remain as God has ordained them. These are laws which God has defined. They are every physical law known to man, and man cannot alter them

testifies to the fact that God is its Creator. I find other claims to be without concrete foundation. Whatever arguments or opposing opinions have been expressed to propagate this theory have proved erroneous

research. One of my early works on this subject include the book God Arises: Evidence of God in Nature and Science. It establishes the existence of God according to modern scientific findings. It has been translated

21.WHAT IS ACTUALLY WITHIN MAN’S CONTROL?Natural laws will always remain as God has ordained them. These are laws which God has defined. They are every physical law known to man, and man cannot alter them

Silence and God-RealizationTraditions tell of how the Prophet of Islam usually observed silence. (Musad Ahmad, Hadith No. 20810) Many traditions have been recorded on this subject. For example: “Hold fast

remains silent, he will ponder on his Lord. This is maarifah, or the discovery and realization of God. Silence is the door to maarifah. True silence leads man to true maarifah. Silence gives man the opportunity

world to the inner world. He establishes his contact with God and His angels at the psychological level. All these factors strengthen man’s God-realization. Contemplation is

THE WORD OF GODTHE Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 A.D. It is a book that brings glad tidings to mankind

Translated from Arabic and commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan THE DAY OF RESURRECTION In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful By the Day of Resurrection, and by the self-reproaching soul

about at will? Was he not once a drop of ejaculated semen, which then became a leech-like clot; then God shaped and fashioned him in due proportion, fashioning out of him the two sexes, the male and the female

THE PRICE OF THE LOVE OF GODTo be held deserving of God’s choicest blessings it is desired of man that he love God most (2:165). One who loves God most can never allow feelings of hatred to enter his heart

heart. Chapter 33 of the Quran describes a law of nature in these words: “God has not placed two hearts in any man’s body.” (33:4) It is the result of this law of nature that both hatred and love cannot

attention to. It is desired of man that he love God most (2:165). Without this, no one can be held deserving of God’s choicest blessings. But this love of God necessarily has a price. The price is that in

desires with religious work. Religious work can only be done by those who have surrendered fully to God. Even the slightest shortcoming in this regard renders them incompetent to perform religious work.

has no authentic basis in the religion of Islam. The making of law in Islam is solely the right of God and His Prophet, and not of any jurist.  The second point here is that the remark given by Jakarta’s

cases that the British author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said in his book, The God Delusion that Islam believes in the concept of thought crime. However, this is a completely unfounded

danger that God has cautioned us about will be felt only in the afterlife: the wall of death stands between us and its realization and our eyes cannot penetrate it. Therefore, although people immediately

to the air-raid siren, they remain unaffected and dispassionate on hearing of the calamity of which God has given us ample warning. The news does not impress upon them the absolute certainty of their doom

being so, they do not feel spurred on to atone for their sins, or to begin leading righteous lives. God has given us not only our two eyes with which to perceive the external world, but also a ‘third’ eye

Islam’, and that, ‘God is peace’ (Al-Bukhari). Similarly, there is another hadith that says that a Muslim is one from whose tongue and hands, people are safe. One of the attributes of God described in the

the Quran is ‘As-Salaam’, which means ‘peace and security’. That is to say that God’s Being itself is a manifestation or embodiment of peace. In the Quran, divine guidance is likened to the ‘path of peace’

for one another, which is another indication of the importance of peace in the ideal society. God has decreed success only by reconciliation, and not by violent courses of action. Peace is the norm

cause of God, the rest is rendered lawfully usable for the almsgiver. Deducting zakat from one’s earning is a material acknowledgement of the fact that the actual giver is God. Since the giver is God, the