New Delhi. POLITICAL POWER: A RESPONSIBILITY Power is not a Worldly Blessing; it is a Test set by God. SOLOMON, an Israelite prophet as well as a king, was the ruler of Palestine and Syria. While engaged

kind of a worldly blessing; it is a test set by God. Just as everything that one possesses in this world is a test, so also is political power a test paper. God Almighty is constantly watching the behaviour

ruler to ascertain whether he is just or unjust in performing his duties. A king is accountable before God just as the common man is. According to this Quranic concept, political power is a responsibility rather

only in the Hereafter. As per the creation plan of God, Man gets to see in this world a prototype of all possible joys and luxuries. In this way, God conveys to Man that if he wants to avail all of these

point of view of the post-death period, it appears to be joyous. According to the creation plan of God, Man is standing at a very delicate point. He faces two choices, and he has to pick one of them for

reminder of the reality that when God gives the command for a difficult task, He at the same time makes arrangements so that there is ease in the performance of that task. God has enjoined fasting on believers

have the pre-dawn meal before the day long fast. Any commandment of God, however difficult, requires absolute trust in Him. Similarly, God has asked the believers to perform the task of conveying the message

from those who place obstacles in his path. If God’s command appears difficult to a believer, he should place his trust in God and persevere. This is because God does not only give commands but also fulfils

of his descendants under my sway.’ (17 : 62) According to another verse in the Quran, Satan said to God:  ‘….then I will surely come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right and

THE AGE OF SCIENCE RELIGIONPART IDiscover God Through Reason MAN finds himself in a world where there is a creation, but the Creator of this creation is apparently not in sight. There is design in this

an invisible, intangible being behind this visible, tangible creation; that this invisible being is God, who should be believed in and worshipped. The role of the prophets, was in a sense inferential in

should use his reason and, by inferring from the visible, come to conviction that there is an invisible God. To lend credibility to this inferential role, the prophets performed miracles. The Quran has this

news to those who endure with fortitude. Those who say, when afflicted with a calamity, ‘We belong to God and to Him we shall return,’ are the ones who will have blessings and mercy from their Lord: it is

make peace, make peace with them, and put your trust in God. Surely, it is He who is All Hearing and All Knowing. Should they seek to deceive you, God is enough for you […] THE QURAN 8: 61-62 From this Quranic

with the opposing party, based on the confidence that God is always with those who love peace, and not with those who engage in deception. God is always with those who love peace. From this we also

of my husband, the Prophet of God, my father, Abu Sufyan, and my brother, Muawiyah.” “Umm Habibah,” said the Prophet, “life-spans are all decided by God. When you pray to God, you had best ask for salvation

faithlessness and this would cause him great distress. With his own heart having been opened to faith by God, he felt certain that were his kith and kin to remain in a state of unbelief, they would be doomed

The Countless Blessings of God Ibn Asakir records this saying of Abu Darda: “He who fails to realize that God has blessed him, not only with regard to food and drink, but in many other ways, has understood

but little; such a man stands on the brink of eternal damnation.” (HILYAT AL-AULIYA) Devotion to God: food for the soul The Prophet Muhammad is recorded as having said: “When I pass the night in vigil

Constant fear of God The second Caliph of Islam, Umar ibn Khattab once wrote a letter to Abu Musa Ash’ari, offering him this advice: “Remain ever in fear of God; and learn the Book of God, for it is the

believers, i.e. there will be no one who denies God. Reminders of the Prophets Right from Prophet Noah to the Final Prophet, Muhammad, many prophets were sent by God to the world. But there are three prophets—Noah