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

the East and the West, there is no deity but Him, so take Him as your Guardian. Bear patiently with what they say, and ignore them politely. Leave it to Me to deal with the deniers, who live a life of comfort

instance, the Quran attaches great importance to patience. In fact, patience is set above all other Islamic virtues with the exceptional promise of reward beyond measure. (39:10) Patience implies a peaceful

rifq (gentleness) what he does not grant to unf (violence). (Abu Dawud, Sunan, 4/255) The word rifq has been used in this hadith as an antithesis to unf. These terms convey exactly what is meant by violence

This hadith clearly indicates the superiority of the non-violent method. God grants to non-violence what He does not grant

divine scheme, honour is based on merit and not on any kind of external features. The Prophet of Islam once said that, before God, red and white, black and brown, were all equal. He said: “Behold, God

Adam was created out of dust.” There may be differences in colour or physical features, but man is what he is in his inner being and, in this sense, everyone has the same potential. Everyone is born with

turn his potential into a reality is the one who will be successful. You are not what others think you are: you are what you prove yourself to be. Everyone has the capacity to become a self-made man. Everyone

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The Islamic Concept of HistoryAccording to the Qur’an, 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

too has been created with a certain purpose. Yet man, on the contrary, is totally free. He can do what he wants by his own decision. However, in spite of this freedom he is being watched constantly by

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

too has been created with a certain purpose. Yet man, on the contrary, is totally free. He can do what he wants by his own decision. However, in spite of this freedom he is being watched constantly by

human shape, and that his prophets are in some way superhuman or otherworldly. But a prophet in the Islamic sense is no different from any other human being. His uniqueness lies simply in his being the chosen

people how God’s servants should, in practice, conduct themselves on earth, and showing them clearly what path they must tread in order to avert God’s displeasure and make themselves worthy of His blessings

adjust. The same is true of Islam, by its very nature it is a wholly pacific and conciliatory faith. An atmosphere of strife and brutality is anathema to the performance of Islamic dawah, which can produce

produce results only in an atmosphere of peace. How then could Islam possibly approve of war and violence? When Islam is, in truth, a peace-loving religion, how has it come to be portrayed as the very opposite

way related to the principles of Islam. They resulted rather from the external circumstances prevailing in the world of that time. These wars did not break out because Islam wanted to fight, but because others

reason for this transformation was the universal nature of Islam. Previously, these people had worshipped the phenomena of nature, but then Islam brought enlightenment to them: it taught them that nature

creation, having no power of its own. Thus, minds which had formerly been closed, were opened up by Islam. People learned from it that only God is worthy of being worshipped; it is God and God alone who has

categories: Arabs and Asians, black and white, free men and slaves, the mighty and the lowly. But Islam removed all these dividing lines and set all these distinctions at naught. It impressed upon people