evil with good.” (28:54) Similarly, the Prophet Muhammad e advised a Muslim to “do good to those who harm you” (alTirmirdhi). The Prophet Muhammad e was the true embodiment of the finest moral character.

dislike it. (61:8-9) At the very beginning of his prophetic career, the Qur’an declared that Muhammad e would certainly succeed in his mission. All his opponents, however powerful they might be, would ultimately

but none of them achieved the envisioned success. Throughout human history, the Prophet Muhammad e is the only exception to this rule, in that his predictions were fulfilled to the fullest extent. Through

form of recognition is praise and glory. That is why this position is called the muqam-e-mahmood. This verse on muqam-e-mahmood was revealed in the second stage of the Makkan period at a time when Islam had

not in the sense of repetition of some word, but in the sense of thinking. Much remembrance, or zikr-e-kathir, is not a kind of lip service. It is rather a high kind of intellectual activity. Much remembrance

person’s thinking process, that is, a series of thoughts in which each thought causes the next one. Zikr-e-kathir, or much remembrance, is a result of creative thinking. It is a product of a prepared mind. If

The beautiful names which God has chosen to introduce Himself to man—asma-e-husna—are such as will open the gate of mercy to man. God’s beautiful names tell us what the meeting points between God and man

Hadith. In an article published in an official organ of the Jamaat-e-Islami, it was said: In the matter of the goal that the Jamaat-e-Islami has adopted for itself, the likes or dislikes of any individual

jama‘at or party only for two purposes. One, for peacefully inviting people to what is good, or dawat-e khair, and, two, for peacefully preaching the message of God to people. The former refers to conveying

a political party. The ideology invented by the founders of the Ikhwan ulMuslimoon and the Jamaat-e-Islami was against the Islamic shariah as well as against nature. Such a self-styled ideological interpretation

Hadith No. 2601) In this tradition of the Prophet of Islam, the phrases haarib-e-naar (running away from hell) and taalib-e-Jannat (seeker of Paradise) have been used. The choice of the phrases is very

religious and this is what made it complex. The Kashmiri leadership made it an issue of establishing Nizam-e-Mustafa (establishment of Islamic Shariah). For example, Muslims in India participate in all aspects

aspects of life and avail all benefits, but if Indian Muslims were to start a campaign to establish Nizam-e-Mustafa in India, they would lose everything. Muslims cannot think of progressing separately from the

continues at every moment. For instance, in this couplet by a Persian poet: Bar mazaar-e-ma nay cheraghe nay guley Nay par-e-parvanaraqsad Nay sadaibulbule (I being a poor man, there is no lamp, no flower