Islam (SOI) marks the magazine’s entry into 8th year of its publication. We are thankful to Almighty God for according us the opportunity to contribute positively in the greater service of humanity to establish

nature, there is no contradiction between Islam and science. Quran believed to be the preserved book of God is free from human interpolation. The personality of the Prophet of Islam, his life and teachings are

contemporary idiom to bring home the message of peace and spirituality. Its arguments for the existence of God, the Hereafter, Hell and Paradise are based on well-established principles of science. Its rational

of Paradise. A divine mission takes into account all communities. It derives its inspiration from God rather than from the community to which it belongs. The narrow, confined attitude which is reflected

one’s community, a divine mission takes into account all communities. It derives its inspiration from God rather than from the community to which it belongs. What makes this matter considerably grave is the

trustees of his prophetic mission. It is for them to perform the task for which the prophets were sent by God. When we keep this in mind, the communication of the divine message to every human being becomes the

personality. — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan DIVINE FOOD THE Quran (20: 131) refers to a provision from God in these words: “Do not regard with envy the worldly benefits We have given some of them, for with

only to test them. The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.” It is this provision from God that was given to Mary. The Quran has referred to this fact in these words: Every time Zachariah visited

provision with her. He asked, ‘Mary, where did this provision come from?’ She replied, This is from God. God provides for whoever He wills without measure. THE QURAN 3: 37 The “food” given to Mary was not

transformed.DEATH: A REMINDERLife is a period of action and death is the time to appear in the court of God. We should take the life of this world as a preparation period and make ourselves deserving of Paradise

it did not contradict the law of God. The Quraysh displayed all manner of bigotry while the treaty was being compiled. They removed the words, “Muhammad, Messenger of God” from the draft and inserted “Muhammad

‘Abdullah” instead. Taking offence at the words “In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful,” they insisted on “In Your Name, Oh God,” being written. They added a clause saying that any Quraysh who

it did not contradict the law of God. The Quraysh displayed all manner of bigotry while the treaty was being compiled. They removed the words, “Muhammad, Messenger of God” from the draft and inserted “Muhammad

‘Abdullah” instead. Taking offence at the words “In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful,” they insisted on “In Your Name, Oh God,” being written. They added a clause saying that any Quraysh who

non-Islamic temperament. Non- Muslims rely on their own strategies; Muslims place total trust in God. This explains why non-Muslims always erected forts for their own protection and security, while Muslims

to man’s greatness, whereas mosques, in which Muslims glorify God, are a reminder to present and future generations of the greatness of God. A mosque is, locally, a focal point for Muslims, just as the

Prophet Muhammad’. It is as if, according to this explanation, the Prophet Abraham, the Friend of God, was a ‘partial prophet’ who could not take the revolutionary movement of Islam to the stage of success

once sought to rectify this blunder by claiming that it is wrong to believe that all the prophets of God did not establish an Islamic Government. Writing in the July 1965 issue of the Jamaat’s journal Zindagi

possible that people will think this to be novel, but if we keep in front of us the practice (sunnat) of God with regard to the prophets that the Quran talks about, then no doubt remains about the veracity of

IS SCIENCE IN PURSUIT OF GODFROM Newton to Einstein, the basic pursuit of science was based on discovering the laws of nature. But in the post-Einsteinian era, the pursuit of science shifted from the discovery

are some scientists who believe in the existence of the Higgs Boson particle popularly known as the God particle, which is supposed to explain many questions about the nature of our universe. Recently, a

dare to say there is a living controller and that controller is God, one can still say that present day science has confirmed the idea of God indirectly, albeit not directly. Nature is so comprehensible