the modern age—people around the globe are now our e-neighbours. Hence the rights that are due to our immediate neighbours, now extend over to our e-neighbours as well. The same concern and desire to aid

companions in the seventh century is stated in the Quran to be izhar-e-deen. (Izhar in Arabic means dominance/ ascendancy / supremacy. Here izhar-e-deen signifies intellectual and ideological dominance, not political

ideological respects, God’s, religion assumes ascendancy over all other ideologies and religions.) Izhar-e-deen was not an incident of short duration, but an ongoing assertion of the eternal dominance of Islam

Islam termed in the Quran as tabeen-e-haq, the truth becoming clear enough (The Quran, 41:53). In the Hadith, this event of the emergence of Islam is called shahadat-e-azam (the great witness) (Sahih Muslim

convert this final emergence of Islam into a reality. This has been expressed by the words of Shahadat-e-Azam in the Hadith.

a meaningful hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari to this effect. According to this hadith, Prophet Muhammad e said: “God Almighty will strengthen this religion [Islam] through a fajir (one who is not a true Muslim)

large. There are several phases in the history of Islam which illustrate this point. Prophet Muhammad e spent his first thirteen years

religion; for me, mine. THE QURAN 109: 6 The Mughal Emperor Akbar, propounded a syncretic faith ‘Deen-e-Ilahi’ that united the different religions of his subjects. He tried to use the powers of his empire

Islam in HistoryAccording to a tradition, Prophet Muhammad e observed that every verse of the Quran has two levels of meaning, one apparent and one hidden. That is, we have to read between the lines in

shades of meaning will continue to be revealed in every age. According to a hadith, Prophet Muhammad e observed: “The wonders of the Quran will never come to an end.” (Mishkat al-Masabih, Vol. 1, p.