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

cause or the other. They think that it is some external factor which truly influences their destiny. God, however, says that the human fate is not linked with the birds or the stars: neither is it connected

his life history written in the shape of a diary, which contains all matters, both great and small. God raised prophets among the various communities and revealed the scriptures to them. He did this so that

first issue of SOI if you are thinking about why you cannot always have all the good things in life: God has placed unpleasant things alongside the pleasant things of life. Just as the rose bush, along with

thorns, so also does life contain an amalgam of both pleasing and displeasing objects. This is the way God has created the world. There is nothing for us to do but to fit in with this order of nature that He

ideal society. According to the creation plan of God, this is not possible. (April-June, 2021) SOI helps us to gain perspective. It guides towards a God-oriented life. It emphasizes a duty-conscious life

is to establish political power. This is far from the truth. Political power is a test paper from God. Political power is given to someone to see how he behaves after gaining power. The religion of

person. Wealth and riches are tests for human beings, which is why wealth keeps changing hands, because God has to test every human being. If wealth is permanently given to a single individual or group, then

other people cannot be tested. Putting wealth in someone’s possession permanently is contrary to God’s creation plan. Same is true of political power. Political power is also a test paper. Political power

proof of the existence of God. We go through this psychological experience at some point of time in our lives. Each one of us, in his inner feelings, witnesses the existence of God.

prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). The prayer goes as follows: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can

terms may be called “God”. Man’s search for meaning and truth, questions about death and beyond can find fulfilment under a single phenomenon that in religious terms may be called “God”. If we accept this

everyone is in search of God. It is God who gives meaning to all phenomena, because, after finding God, everything falls into place. Everyone, knowingly or unknowingly, is in search of God. During this search

search. ‘God’ is not something which one finds from external sources. It is a matter of self-discovery. God can only be discovered by an individual himself. It is only the self-discovered God that can

Asking from God in Utter Helplessnessevent for such a powerless person with no resources. The only way that this happening can be explained is that a prayer (dua) with ism-e-aazam came to my heart with

with great fervour and God accepted it. It was in this way that it became possible for me to introduce Islam in modern time —an event which, at the outset, had seemed unthinkable for an individual like myself

myself. Asking from God in Utter Helplessness It was October 24, 2006. It was the day of Eid. I had gone to a New Delhi mosque to perform my Eid prayer. There I was sitting in a corner in the mosque. And

atheist philosophers and physicists have frequently asked, “If God has created the Universe according to religious belief, who has created God?” But this question is totally illogical. It is sheer negation

of a Creator is also possible without a Creator. The Rational Stand The issue of the existence of God must only be dealt with in a purely rational manner. No other stand except a rational stand can be

wrote on this subject (London, 1983). This phenomenon of the universe provides conclusive proof of God’s existence. Intelligent creation is clearly a proof of an Intelligent Creator. Logically, it is unthinkable

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

level. Translated from Arabic and commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan MOUNT SINAI In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By the Mount Sinai, and by the Scripture penned on unrolled

means a sea with waves. All these things bear testimony that the Day of seizure by God is certain to come. Almighty God has repeatedly given these very tidings through the prophets. This has also been mentioned