JOURNEY TOWARDS GODREALIZATIONThe Sublimity of Spiritual Experience GOD does not manifest Himself physically in our world. The joy, therefore, that comes from the realization of His existence and putting

Him is, in consequence, abstract in nature. But, in the next world, God will manifest Himself in all His glory and the joys which God’s true servants will experience in Paradise will be a materialization

them, for they will already have become acquainted with it in this world through their devotions, “God will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them,” or as the Prophet put it, “The people of

THE WORD OF GODFrom The Scriptures The 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 CE. It is a book that brings glad

intellectual level. Translated from Arabic and commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Say, He is God, the One, God, the Self-sufficient One. He does not give birth, nor was He born, and there is nothing like

monotheism. Not only does it tell us of the oneness of God, but it also makes it clear what the oneness of God means. This chapter presents the concept of God, purified of all human interpolation, for, prior

What the Hadith referred to above means is whether in this precious part of our lives we thanked God for this gift or not. Were we arrogant, or were we modest? Did we cause problems to others? Were we

GOD HAS CREATED YOU FOR A HIGHER PURPOSEFind Your Purpose ROBERT CLIVE was a clerk in the East India Company in the eighteenth century. Dissatisfied with his salary of a mere five pounds a year, he decided

his revolver to his head and pulled the trigger, but it misfired. Then, suddenly he cried out that God had made him for a bigger task! After this, he joined the East India Company’s Army, and gradually

and Hadith tell us that if God prevents a task from happening the way you had planned it, it is a clue that He wants you to do something else. A  Hadith  report says that when God loves a people, He tests

Such remarks are absurd. Any tragedy befalling this world is designed to make God’s servants tremble in fear of their Maker, and are not occasions for righteous castigation of supposed wrongdoers. The

The truth is that this earthquake related neither to Iran’s iniquity nor to God’s chastisement. An earthquake is a geophysical event; it is meant as a lesson for everyone, and not just for the people of Iran

happen on a horrendous scale on the Day of Reckoning. God has built this world as a temporary testing ground. When this period of trial is over, God will cause a severe earthquake to take place. Under its

states that the joys which God’s true servants will experience in Paradise will be a materialization of the joys they experienced in their worship in the world. In this world, God does not come out into the

realization of His existence and faith in Him is, accordingly, an abstract one. But in the next world, God will manifest Himself in all His glory; the joy that will come from beholding Him will become apparent

towards conscious discovery of God; they are ways of establishing contact with the Creator. There is more to our relationship with God than performing some good deeds and God in Heaven being pleased with

faith with great fervour but in action might keep to their self-interests. They might prostrate before God, but behave arrogantly with people. They might recite the Quran but fail to follow the commandments

personality. —Maulana Wahiduddin Khan ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE TRUTH GOD manifests Himself on earth through truth. Disbelief in the truth is disbelief in God. There is no greater crime than to refuse to accept the

emanates from God. Whoever rejects it is, in fact, rejecting God. Rejecting truth on the grounds of prejudice, pride or expediency, is to reject God Himself. It is a failure to recognize God in the truth

truth. It is equivalent to placing yourself above God and giving precedence to your own petty requirements. There is nothing strange about the truth. It is inherent to human nature, yet people fail to accept

GIVING AS GOD WILLSNot As We Will MAN’S life and property are gifts of God. He owes everything he possesses to God alone. The only way to give thanks for these innumerable gifts is to dispose of them

them as God wishes. Such expenditure of one’s wealth is symbolic of one’s complete trust in God. Man owes whatever he earns in this world to the fact that God has given him hands and feet to use for this purpose

speak. He has blessed him with an intellect which enables him to think and plan. At the same time, God has made the world subordinate to man. If the world and all that it contains had not been placed at

Islam is the subject to be followed, then the goal is to focus on oneself—one must discover God, lead a God-oriented life and try to spiritually elevate oneself. With such a goal, there can be no question