more than she had asked for. When she departed, Umar raised his hands towards heaven and said: “O God, bear witness that I have not exercised any coercion on this lady.” (Tarikh Umar ibn al-Khattab by

met an outspoken person named Muhammad ibn Maslamah. “How do you find me?” he asked Muhammad, “By God, I find you just as I would like you to be and just as it would please any well-wisher to see you.

vice.” At these aggressively critical words, Umar, the second Muslim Caliph, exclaimed: “Praise be to God, who has put me among a people who will straighten me when I become crooked.” (Kanz al-Ummal) When

and the same God, and therefore belong to one great brotherhood. So far as their earthly origin is concerned, they are all descendants of the first pair of human beings ever created by God—Adam and Eve

are apparently unlike themselves, for differentiating between one man and another is not approved by God. They should rather promote fellow feeling towards others, even if at first glance they appear like

are apparently unlike themselves, for differentiating between one man and another is not approved by God. Ideally, the relation between one man and another ought not to be one of strangeness but one of

Man, Realize the RealityThe concept of a living and powerful God is necessarily accompanied by the concept of accountability. And the concept of accountability guarantees right thinking and right actions

reminding him of God’s chastisement. Moreover, this gives him the conviction of receiving God’s reward if he adheres to the right path at all costs and in all situations. The concept of God provides man with

God the Almighty is too great for man to give Him anything. The only thing man can offer in His presence is acknowledgment. The moment of man’s greatest worship of God is when his soul is pervaded by God’s

God’s glory and greatness; when he recognizes God’s divinity as compared to man’s servitude; when, in full awareness of his own helplessness, he comes to acknowledge God’s bounties in the true sense of

of the word. When man discovers God with all His attributes, his soul lies prostrate before Him. His whole being turns towards God. The feelings inspired in him by God’s bounties surge within him like the

with the realization of God and higher realities. You will be able to draw spiritual lessons from the Quran and develop to be a Godfearing person with a strong affection for God. Your study becomes a creative

becomes for you a means to discover new meanings. Studying the Quran now, becomes a moment of meeting God.   

DawahIn one of his traditions the Prophet said: ‘No house on the earth, small or big, will be left but God will make enter the message of Islam into it.’ This Prophetic tradition has a prediction for the later

generations. This prediction does not mean that it will happen in a mysterious way that the word of God will enter into every house in itself. It will certainly happen under the principle of cause and effect

word of God enter into each and every house: small or big. No one, man or woman will remain on the face of this earth but he or she will willingly or unwillingly be made aware of the message of God. In fact

teachings of Islam to others—nasih, well-wishing and amin, trustworthiness. The former appertains to God and the latter to man. What is meant by nasih (well-wishing) is an earnest desire on the part of the

that it ensures that the Islam God has sent to the world will be presented to the people without deletion, addition or distortion. For instance, if the Islam sent by God is akhirah (Hereafter) oriented

teachings of the Quran before the people. That is, presenting the concept of One God as opposed to the concept of many gods; presenting akhirah-oriented life as superior to world-oriented life; principle-oriented

something and the other 50% acting on something. In the Islamic creed, ‘There is no other God’ comes before, ‘there is one God’. The aim of fasting for man is to apply a brake on his desires so that he may carry

that he may travel successfully on the path of God. The fasting of that person is true for whom fasting is like applying brakes on the things forbidden by God.

something and the other 50% acting on something. In the Islamic creed, ‘There is no other God’ comes before, ‘there is one God’. The same ratio of negative and positive aspect is found in all the religious acts

that he may travel successfully on the path of God. The fasting of that person is true for whom fasting is like applying brakes on the things forbidden by God.

to truth swims in God’s ocean, and so he is able to sing God’s song, to strum God’s eternal melody on the musical instrument that is Nature. In that melody, there are flashes of God’s beauty and perfection

us that God is watching us, and that we will be answerable to Him for all our actions. It causes the sensitive person to quake and burst into tears. The caller to truth is an expression of God’s beauty

caller to truth, God comes very close to man, but even at that moment he does not find God. Man is not driven into a state of being overwhelmed, into bursting into song in praise of God. Nor do his eyes