ISLAMIC SOCIETYBelievers, if an evil-doer brings you news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully, lest you unwittingly harm others, and then regret what you have done, and know that the Messenger

successful in this world without this. The easiest way to make a person deserving is to give to others what he wants God to give to himself. If he wants God to help him, he should also be a helper of others

compassion, so deal with me with kindness and compassion.”MUTUAL RESPECTAddressing the Prophet of Islam, the Quran states: “O people, your religion is for you, and my religion is for me.” (109:6) This verse

well-wishing for others, adhere to justice with others, are the people of paradise. The Prophet of Islam was asked what it was that counted as more important for a person to find a place in Paradise. The Prophet

methods is applicable to the given situation. Islam is a religion which teaches non-violence. According to the Quran, God does not love fasad, violence. What is meant here by fasad is clearly expressed in

Prophet of Islam and participated in several wars against him. Shortly before the conquest of Makkah (8 A.H), he came to Madinah and accepted Islam. While narrating the story of his acceptance of Islam, he said

said that before having accepted Islam, he had been engaged in activities against Islam, but he felt again and again that he was not at the right place, being the Prophet’s rival. It weighed on his mind

aspect of Islam among many? No, not at all! Rather, it is nothing short of a complete interpretation of the deen—and which, for want of a more appropriate term, one can call ‘the political interpretation’

interpretation’ of Islam.

spirit. It is this political dimension that, in his view, is what he calls the Quran’s ‘central teaching’ and ‘essential subject-matter’. If what the Maulana said is really true, then he has been very charitable

must certainly have appeared so far. But from the perspective of the political interpretation of Islam, it would appear that in the history of the last 1400 years, not a single person has been born who

was now nothing to stop people from accepting Islam. It was as if a large crowd had gathered at the gate of Islam. The gate was thrown open with the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah and the crowds flocked in. As

more than 3,000. This was a direct result of the removal of the greatest obstacle to acceptance of Islam—the anger and irritation of the Quraysh which would result from such a move. Bara’ was one of the

to say to later-day people, those who considered the Conquest of Makkah to be the great victory of Islam that the Companions of the Prophet used to consider the Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyyah as the outstanding

nature, all this has now become a reality. This age, potentially, is the age of the emergence of Islam. The beginning of this age was marked by the research done by Galileo Galilee (1564-1642) and later

the Prophet of Islam. By using the modern means of communication, the message of the Creator has to be conveyed to each and every home, big or small. (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 23814) Islam has been presented

the emergence or advent of Islam termed in the Quran as tabeen-e-haq, the truth becoming clear enough (The Quran, 41:53). In the Hadith, this event of the emergence of Islam is called shahadat-e-azam (the