In the book, Ramadan: A Month of Purification, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that saum, the Arabic word for fasting means abstinence. Ramadan entails fostering of a culture of abstinence. Prophet Muhammad said, “There is purification for all things, and purification of the body is fasting.” (Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 1745) Just ...
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Ramadan: A Month of Purification
The Quran tells us that there is no compulsion in the matter of religion. (2:256) However this was not the order of the day when Islam came to the world in the 7th century AD. In The Revolutionary Role of Islam, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that Islam came to make this a reality. As such the expansion of the Islamic empire was not simply ...
The present book The Political Interpretation of Islam is a summary of the book Taʿbir ki Ghalati (‘Error of Interpretation’). Here, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has briefly explained that the writings of Maulana Abul Ala Maududi (d. 1979), the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami and proponent of a distinctly political interpretation of Islam, are prob...
In the book, The Call of the Quran, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that it is the duty of every Muslim man, woman and child to study the Quran and follow it. He further explains that it is also the responsibility of the Muslims to convey the message of the Quran to other nations. Therefore, the Quran urges the Muslims time and again to carry o...
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The history of man begins with Prophet Adam. After the creation of man, throughout long periods of history, God appointed and sent His messengers to inform man of His creation plan. He wanted mankind to know what the Creator wants from him in this world and what his fate is going to be in the world hereafter. More than 100,000 prophets over a...
LESSONS FROM JESUS CHRISTProphet of God
WE find from the Quran and Hadith that a large number of God’s messengers were sent to different nations and regions. The majority of these prophets are unknown
details of the lives of the prophets. The Quran opened this chapter for the first time in history.
God has instructed us not to differentiate between the prophets as they essentially brought the same message
making frequent mention of these prophets individually, and also testifying to their having received God’s guidance, a blessing which exalted them above all other creatures. It was so that the Prophet of Islam
—Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
A FAULTLESS UNIVERSE
The words of the 2nd verse of the Quran: “Praise be to God, the
Lord of the Universe” (1: 2) are a person’s spontaneous utterance
when he observes the universe
everlasting supremacy. God will rid them of their fear and grief, and accord to them His everlasting beneficence.
The Islamic Life
Islam can be summed up very briefly: fear of God and benevolence towards
realizes God’s omnipotence and man’s utter helplessness in comparison. The power which man apparently wields has been given to him only so that he may be tested by it. When his trials are at an end, God will
will reveal to him a hitherto unseen world. Then, astoundingly, God’s divinity on the one hand and man’s total helplessness on the other, will become as plain as daylight. There will be such revelations of
GOD’S HOSPITALITYAs for those who affirm, ‘Our Lord is God,’ and then remain steadfast, the angels will descend on them, saying, ‘Have no fear and do not grieve. Rejoice in the [good ews of the] Garden
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