CAN THE UNIVERSE HELP A SEEKER REACH THE TRUTH 2Spiritual Lessons from Nature GOD created a perfect and complete world as an eternal abode for man called Paradise. Then, He wanted to know who was worthy

well as the next perfect and everlasting world. God has revealed Himself in two books—the Quran and the universe. The Quran is a literal version of God’s word, while the universe, or nature, is a practical

scheme. This dual source of divine inspiration is mentioned in the Quran in the following verse: It was God who raised the heavens with no visible supports, and then established Himself on the throne; He has

CONVICTION IN GOD, BUT FIND MYSELF LACKING IN IT. HOW CAN I DEVELOP IT?There is just one formula – save yourself from distraction. People remain engaged in and distracted by other-than-God and at the same

same time desire to attain conviction in God. Till the time you do not steer yourself away from distractions, you will not be able to focus on God.24.AFTER DOING WRONG, THE POWER OF REPENTANCE BECOMES

CONVICTION IN GOD, BUT FIND MYSELF LACKING IN IT. HOW CAN I DEVELOP IT?There is just one formula – save yourself from distraction. People remain engaged in and distracted by other-than-God and at the same

same time desire to attain conviction in God. Till the time you do not steer yourself away from distractions, you will not be able to focus on God.24.AFTER DOING WRONG, THE POWER OF REPENTANCE BECOMES LOW

Leave justice to God Imam Zayn ul-Abidin (38,94 AH), the son of Imam Husain, was the only member of the latter’s family to survive the slaughter of Karbala. Informed that some individual had slandered

taken to see him. On entering, he greeted him and said: “If what you say about me be true, I pray for God’s forgiveness; and if it be false, may He forgive you.” Being conscious of one’s own faults, not of

never used to speak ill of anybody, he once remarked upon people’s extraordinary habit of fearing God with regard to other people’s sins, but not with regard to their own. (IBN SA’D, TABAQAT)

BOWING BEFORE THE TRUTHSurrendering before the truth amounts to surrendering before God. And one who does not surrender before the truth is as if following Satan. Chapter 20 of the Quran states: “We made

adhere steadfastly to God’s commandments, unwavering determination is essential. If a person is influenced by irrelevant factors, he will undoubtedly deviate from the path of God. In order to remain steadfastly

steadfastly on the path of God, it is not enough to know what His commandments are; it is also

PEACE IS THE NAME OF GODIn every religion including Islam, God is described as a Being Who is the source of peace. In the Quran we find a number of names for God which are descriptive of the divine attributes

attributes. One of these is As Salam (THE QURAN 59: 23), meaning Peace. This name for God which specifically denotes peace occurs only once in the Quran. But there are many other names which indirectly connote

(Most compassionate) occur more than two hundred times in the Quran. As represented in the Quran, God is All Peace. He is peace in His very being and He desires that His servants live peacefully in this

ungratefulness. A blessing which is in actuality given by God, is thus attributed not to God but to a person. This is a case of a failure to acknowledge God’s magnanimity and that is the greatest sin in this world

Prophet described an apparently material blessing as “God’s gift”. True believers consider that everything belongs to God alone and acknowledge God by attributing everything to Him. Whatever people get

a blessing from God. It is required of a person that he remove the veils in which reality is shrouded and by discovering the truth may say on receiving every blessing that this is God’s gift given directly

August 1972, when he set foot on the moon. It was an ecstatic experience, he said, to feel oneself in God’s presence, to feel so close to Him that His greatness appeared before one’s eyes. Colonel Irwin did

magnificence, he was able to experience there the presence of God. Colonel Irwin’s experience was not a unique one, for in truth all that God has created is so wonderful that one has only to gaze upon it

see God in His creation, we too have to look at everything—not as old and familiar—but new and exciting; we have to look at things as if we are seeing them for the first time. In order to see God in His

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 In the name of God the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. He frowned and turned away when the blind man approached him

to be blamed if he would not purify himself—but as for one who comes to you, eagerly and in awe of God you pay him no heed. Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. Let him who will, pay heed to it. It is

get what you hoped for from it, and so you become tense. But if you act while leaving the result to God to arrange for as He pleases, you will automatically save yourself from getting tense. Secondly, in