to another Hadith the Prophet Muhammad said: “One who believes in God and the Last Day must honour his neighbours; one who believes in God and the Last Day must honour his guests.” There are a number of

showing due respect to the servants of God. For, this is an important area in which we are actually being tested in our faith in God. Our love and devotion for God finds expression in this world in the

love God’s servants. Our love and devotion for God finds expression in this world in the form of our relations with other human beings. One who is a true believer has an inner urge to love God’s servants

is it that supplications made to God often go unheeded? The reason is that people ask God for that which they themselves are not prepared to give to others. They ask God for protection against oppression

others when they have the chance. They ask God to safeguard their lives and property, yet are quick to kill and seize someone else’s property if they can. They ask God for an honourable life, yet are quite

quite happy to humiliate others. They ask God to protect them from enemy plots, yet they plot the destruction of anybody with whom they disagree. One must be sincere in whatever one is praying for. One’s supplication

ritual mode of worship, is an expression of the inner realities’ of humility before, and devotion to God. § greatness being the repetition of the words, “He is the Greatest,” the words, Allahu Akbar, are

uttered time and time again in prayer. Verbal acknowledgement is thus made of the absolute quality of God’s greatness in comparison to that of ordinary mortals. Physically, the ultimate recognition of another’s

one’s belief in the incomparable grandeur of God. The giving of one’s entire attention to God is underlined by turning one’s gaze towards the House of God. The direction in which one must face in order

ritual mode of worship, is an expression of the inner realities’ of humility before, and devotion to God. § greatness being the repetition of the words, “He is the Greatest,” the words, Allahu Akbar, are

uttered time and time again in prayer. Verbal acknowledgement is thus made of the absolute quality of God’s greatness in comparison to that of ordinary mortals. Physically, the ultimate recognition of another’s

one’s belief in the incomparable grandeur of God. The giving of one’s entire attention to God is underlined by turning one’s gaze towards the House of God. The direction in which one must face in order

The Islamic Concept of HistoryAccording to the Quran, God has created the universe with a certain purpose, and all its parts which are strictly under His control, are carrying out His divine scheme without

watched constantly by God, for He does not allow any such deviation in human history over a long period as would nullify His very creation plan.Creation Plan of GodThe Universe made by God is so vast that,

attempts to fathom the universe, many of its secrets still remain unknown. The planet earth, made by God as part of the cosmos was and still is unique in the entire universe, in that it has been endowed with

(‘ibadah) to God. This implies bowing down completely and without any reservation before God and dedicating oneself entirely to Him. The substance of this devotion is deep inner realization of God, or ma‘rifah

Kathir, vol. 7, p. 396). In other words, it is required of a person that God should be a discovery for him. He should recognize God without seeing him. This is essential to Godrealization. The shape which

choose. They go free because it is not God’s way to catch hold of human beings in haste. It is certainly not because God has no plan ever to bring them to book. God has not created human beings for the

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 AD. It is a book that brings glad

have no knowledge. They can be of no avail to you against God. The wrongdoers are friends of one another, while the friend of the righteous is God. This [Book] brings enlightenment and guidance to mankind

mankind, and is a blessing for those who have firm faith. (45: 16-20) According to verse 16, God exalted the Children of Israel over the peoples of the world. This parallels what was said of the people (ummah)

virtues are bound to fade. All mundane things have a dark side to them. How, one may ask, could a God who is Himself perfect, be satisfied with the creation of an intrinsically imperfect world? The absolute

follow to compensate for the inadequacies of the present one. Paradise is that eternal world of God in which His attributes will appear in all their perfection. It will be free of all the defects we

must have existed eternally, for only an infinite Creator could have fashioned a finite world. If God had not always existed, then this transitory world could never have come into being. The very existence

world is also inadequate for granting great rewards for one’s good deeds. The concept of God tells us that God can create a far better world free from all the limitations of the present world, where reward

reward and punishment both can be satisfactorily awarded. The concept of a living and powerful God is necessarily accompanied by the concept of accountability. And the concept of accountability guarantees

reminding him of God’s chastisement. Moreover, this gives him the conviction of receiving God’s reward if he adheres to the right path at all costs and in all situations. The concept of God provides man with

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

commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan It is God who splits the seed and the fruit-stone. He brings forth the living from the dead, and the dead from the living. That is God. How then can you, deluded, turn away

requisite finish. But when God causes a tree to grow or creates a human being, the methodology is different. He produces the entity in its totality all at one time. In God’s workshop the whole tree or