arises why were problems created for man to deal with? Why is man an exception to the rule of nature? What is the wisdom behind this scheme of creation? This factor is a great blessing for man. It is meant

who has been given the privilege of following divine guidance by his own choice. The Prophet of Islam started his mission in the first quarter of the seventh century in Arabia—an age of religious persecution

from the basis of opportunities shows great wisdom. It means: Start from what is possible today and you will attain, by tomorrow, what is apparently impossible. This principle is based on practical wisdom

PREJUDICEConspiracy Theories DURING the lifetime of the Prophet of Islam many of his fellow men opposed Islam and engaged in plotting against Islam and Muslims. The Quran has mentioned this at several places

The Role of Non-Muslims in Islamic Developmentfrom one another that there is no thick or thin veil in between: the task of clarification has been performed so thoroughly that the man of today has total

hindered neither by false ideologies nor by practical barriers. The Role of Non-Muslims in Islamic Development Islam is the religion of Nature, and in treading its path; it is non-discriminatory, finding

Hadith, Prophet Muhammad e, may peace be upon him, said: “God Almighty will strengthen this religion [Islam] through a fajir (one who is not a true Muslim) person as well.” (Bukhari) This is a very important

one’s necessary expenses. One’s answer is to resort to the Islamic law of inheritance. If women were to be given their due share according to Islamic law, there would be no question of a woman becoming destitute

deceased fathers and husbands as stipulated by Islamic law. If they could do so, this would be more than enough to meet such emergencies. However, Islam has not just left women’s financial problems to

therefore in the Islamic law of maintenance. Here we shall briefly describe some of its aspects: 1. In case the divorced woman is childless or the children are not earning, according to Islamic law,

are highly desirable virtues in Islam, but the direct target of Islamic idealism is not society, and not the state, but the individual. The perennial objective of the Islamic movement is to strive to make

(68:4). So far as the ideal society or the ideal state is concerned, it is in no way a direct goal of Islam. Society and the State are not in themselves independent entities, each being dependent on the mettle

(Mishkat al-Masabih, 11/1097). If the establishment of an ideal State were the actual target of Islam, there should, accordingly, be express injunctions to this effect in the Quran and hadith. For instance

is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 A.D. It is a book that brings glad tidings to mankind, along with divine admonition

not be sufficient to write God’s words and the ocean turned into ink would become exhausted. But, what a pity that, in spite of all this, man fails to recognise the truth and does not mould his life in

impossible. There is, in fact, no other basis upon which it may be achieved. NON-INTERFERENCE Another Islamic principle to promote peace is that of noninterference. This principle, if universally applied, can

the stars revolve eternally in their own orbits, no star ever encroaches upon the orbit of another. What holds good at the astronomical level also holds good at the level of human society. That is, order

enraged and said: ‘What is this foolhardiness? What makes you walk in this frivolous manner, swinging your hands about in this way?’ ‘America is free,’ the man replied. ‘I’m free to do what I want and walk

riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood

has no respectable place in this world. In our world, material events symbolize moral realities. What is required of man, is being demonstrated by the rest of the world at the material level as in the

the foam and scum is discarded. These are material events through which nature shows symbolically what principles it has laid down for the success or failure of life. One principle is that, in this world

call it Islamic jihad. Their leaders form political parties, they enter into violent conflict with other rulers in order to gain power, but they carry out all these activities in the name of Islam. Power

and simple, is given the name of Islamic politics. The so-called Islamic jihad is the most glaring example of engaging in non-Islamic activities under the banner of Islam. In different parts of the world

Muslims are engaged in fighting for their own communal purposes they inevitably call their activities Islamic jihad. The harm done by such violent jihad has multiplied thousand fold due to the modern media’s

teachers who were stringent in their opposition to Islam. The teachers of the first school in Islam were pagan non-Muslims, while the followers of Islam in the later period have lagged behind in education

realities of history. The first school of Islam, established after the Battle of Badr, consisted of teachers who were prisoners of war and hostile to Islam. Regardless of the precariousness of the situation

educating ten Muslim children. It is ironical that while the first school in Islam set up by the Prophet had opponents of Islam as teachers, Muslims of the later period prevented their children from receiving