Readers, Greetings of Peace! This is the beginning of the ninth year of the publication of Spirit of Islam. We are grateful to God for its continuity in the face of many challenges, the most trying one being

Spirit of Islam that fascinates me is that many of its articles are, as if, a commentary on a powerful verse in the Quran: “Those who believe love God most.” (2: 165) In his book 'The Vision of Islam', Maulana

pages of this journal. There are innumerable journals on science, religion and humanities. Spirit of Islam is very special in that it fills a void, one so prominent these days. This is a void left deep within

This unawareness leads to an evil; that is being hateful towards others. Perhaps the Prophet of Islam was the first person in history, who by his example made people aware of this universal principle—that

thinking is wrong, there is always a third option in life. One such example is that the Prophet of Islam started his mission in 610 AD Mecca. At that time the situation was apparently unfavourable for the

must utilize the Western bounties for the sake of Islam just like they are utilizing it for the sake of their own interest. The Prophet of Islam was a Prophet of Monotheism; the situation in the Kabah

religious scholar of his time, she convinced him of the error he was making, and persuaded him to stop what amounted to persecution. I cannot but imagine that if I had been deprived of my mother in early childhood

cause and effect, the human purveyor of God’s will was a lady, a mother, a housewife—one who was Islamic to her very fingertips.

is a need to re-study and re-apply the original teachings of Islam.6.WHAT IS THE DUTY OF MUSLIMS TOWARDS AL-AQSA MOSQUE?According to Islam, there is no duty that Muslims have towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque

is a need to re-study and re-apply the original teachings of Islam.6.WHAT IS THE DUTY OF MUSLIMS TOWARDS AL-AQSA MOSQUE?According to Islam, there is no duty that Muslims have towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque

the 'the days of ignorance' are the more excellent of them in Islam if they attain knowledge and develop understanding—The prophet of Islam. THIS Hadith refers to the stages of intellectual development

arrives at the final destination of one’s intellectual development—that is, the stage that is called ‘Islam’. Each and every negative experience should teach man a valuable lesson. He should, under no circumstances

make-up and likes and dislikes, he develops certain habits and a particular mindset in accordance with what he thinks of as his best interests. Often, all these are obstacles to our spiritual progress. To remove

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, along with divine admonition

skies, and thus We made every kind of excellent plant grow there: this is God’s creation. Show me then what those besides Him have created! The wrongdoers are in manifest error. (THE QURAN 31: 10-11) The universe

factors and arrangements have made the human life possible. Be it the maintenance of balance Spirit of Islam Issue 26 February 2015 45 on the earth by the high mountains, or the opulence of valuable resources

the true faith. But first he was anxious to know on what conditions he could do so, and what he should have to surrender. When the Prophet specified what he would have to accept on becoming a Muslim, Bushair

had very limited economic resources, and many tribes, therefore, wanted zakat to be excluded from Islamic obligations. On the plea that “the man who brought divine grace to the Muslims has left this world

Muslim tribes made it plain that they no longer felt obliged to obey the economic orders of the Islamic government. But they did not object to anything other than the payment of Zakat. They still called

day.” Dhamam then asked about Zakat, Fasting, Hajj (Pilgrimage), and all the other injunctions of Islam, framing each question in the same manner. When he had finished his questioning, and the Prophet had

he reached his people, he told them what had happened. Before a single day had passed, all the men and women who had been awaiting his homecoming, had accepted Islam. There was not a trace of hypocrisy

knew only acceptance or denial—nothing in between. When they made a promise, they fulfilled it, come what may. No threat of loss of life or property could prevent them from converting their words into actions

indicated that, driven by a fiery zeal to counter me, my critics from the Jamaat completely forgot what the word ‘evidence’ means. Some of them went beyond all limits by indulging in mockery. Perhaps they

the literature on and about the political interpretation of Islam has been deliberately written with the aim of promoting deviation in Islam. Rather, this has happened unconsciously. The dominance of a

That is why before I published Taʿbir ki Ghalati, I repeatedly requested the leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami for a very small thing. If they