fall to the ground, rather than ask anyone to pick it up for them. This simply means that in an Islamic society the prevailing atmosphere is not one in which people beg and make demands on one another

this debt would not be forgiven, “for this is what the angel Gabriel has told me.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 1885) This shows how careful everyone in an Islamic society must be, neither to appropriate anything

nahy ‘anil munkar (enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil). These two are not synonymous words rather they have been used to describe two different duties. What is meant by dawah ilallah is

dawah work from the study of the Quran. amr bil ma‘ruf wan nahy ‘anil munkar (enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil) is the name of that act which is carried out among the Muslims. It has no relation

is the internal duty of each Muslim society that it should try to enjoin the Muslims what is right and forbid them what is evil. This is, in its entirety, a peaceful act. It has no connection with compulsion

those who are not blessed with this special gift of wisdom, have nothing by which to understand Islam, except their own preconceptions. They begin to interpret religion according to their own mindset

follow Islam but actually stray far from its spirit. They fail to differentiate between God-sent religion and man-made interpretation. At this point, one who calls people to the original Islam becomes

image of Islam had been distorted, it was he, who was ready to take all the risks involved in the process of reviving its original form. One great loss created by these additions to the original Islam was

Islam. The polyandrous English are not entitled to cast stones at polygamous Muslims. Let us first pluck out the beam from our own eye, before we meddle with the mote in our brother’s eye.” Now, which

could bring forward other moral precepts of Islam and, contrasting them with those of other great religions of the world, point out how in each case there is in Islam a far more harmonious blending of practical

shall only content myself by quoting the following passage from Amir Ali’s famous book, The Spirit of Islam: “The practical character of a religion, its abiding influence on the common relations of mankind

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of light and heat for all the world. Islam means submission. The religion of Islam is so named because it is based on obedience to God. A true believer in Islam is one who subordinates his thinking to

to God, who follows God’s dictates in all aspects of his life. Islam is the religion of the entire universe. For the entire universe and all its parts are functioning in accordance with the law laid down

required to submit to the will of God by his own choice. When man adopts Islam, first of all it is his thinking which comes under Islam, then his desires, his feelings, his interests, his relations, his loves

or as a better system of communal living; others think that Islam should be presented as the upholder of universal truths, common to all religions; yet others have attempted to give it a philosophical

are the inheritors of post-Islamic history, in which the regular call to accept Islam used was ‘Accept Islam! O People.’ That is why the moment we think of the call of Islam, this form of address comes

Prophet’s dawah life, we find a clear gradation in his approach to dawah. The direct call to accept Islam was first used during his stay in Madinah. Prior to this, in Makkah, the wording of the call was as

of civilizations. The truth is that terrorism is the result of intellectual unawareness. This is what makes terrorists resort to violence. They are fired by the mistaken belief that in this way they can

by almost all the religions in one form or another. The Prophet of Islam has expressed the same principle in these words. Render what is due to the rulers and ask for your dues from God. (Sahih al-Bukhari)

between man and God. On the other hand, the ideology behind present terrorist movements is based on what can be called a 'man-versus-man' concept. It is this 'man-versus-man' activism that results in violence

Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been

Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Peace award for promoting peace in Muslim societies. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognized as one of its most influential Muslims1 . His

truth of Islam by the standards of pure human knowledge, and to advance arguments for its being, out of all the religions, the only true religion. These modern developments have brought Islam to the point

dayee and madu and Islam may be communicated to them in strife-free circumstances. There is now the possibility of initiating a serious and fruitful dialogue between Islam and non-Islam. Undoubtedly the