how to live in accordance with the will of God. It is this way of life, which is known in Islam as the sunnah, or path, of the prophets. It covers every aspect of life, from personal matters to social

social reform and nation-building. Those who earnestly seek to be included amongst God’s chosen servants must follow the path of the Prophet in all respects. In no walk of life should they consider themselves

another course. The most important practice of the Prophet’s personal life was preaching the word of God. A study of his life shows that his greatest concern was to bring people to the path of the Lord. That

WAYS OF SELFCORRECTIONFear of Accountability In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful When the earth is shaken with its violent shaking, when the earth shakes off her burdens, when man

away from them. Now the time has come when human beings will be recompensed for their deeds. Today, God’s world is silent, but when conditions change, everything found here will start talking. The inventions

reproduced by a video film and records. Similarly, the present world is, so to say, a big ‘studio’ of God. Whatever a man does or says or even thinks, everything is being recorded at every moment. And when

see a hitherto unknown world, so God gave the prophets a glimpse of the world that lies beyond death. They came to their peoples and conveyed to them the truths that God had embedded in their consciousness

visualize, people dubbed them madmen and liars (QURAN 11: 27). This was the fate of all the prophets of God. (QURAN 36: 30) Indeed, every truth-teller in the history of man has had to tread the same rocky path

peace. The very first phrase in the Quran is: ‘In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful’. In other words, one of the attributes of the God who has sent this Book is mercy, and this Book is an expression

the time the Prophet was commanded to convey the message. Those who regard the Quran as the book of God can be considered to be true believers only when, abiding by the teachings of the Quran, they become

the obligations one owes to God as well as those one owes to God’s creation, including other human beings. Violence, on the other hand, is a violation of the rights of God as well as the rights of people

gain. There are moments in every person’s life when he feels helpless. At such moments, prayer to God brings a person comfort and peace. For any individual, prayer is the best source of crisis management

“power” has been mentioned along with kabad (suffering). This tells us about the reason for suffering. God created man with extraordinary capacity. But along with that he was placed in such circumstances as

being seems to have power, he still has his share of suffering. Suffering is a timely reminder of God’s absolute power.

“Messenger of God,” his companions protested, “we will do all the work.” “I know that you will do it,” the Prophet replied, “but that would amount to discrimination, which I don’t approve of. God does not like

in usual way. (AL-QURTUBI, TAFSIR) Why try to make a god of oneself? Hamdun Nishapuri, who lived in the third century Hijri, when asked who God’s true servant was, answered: “One who worships and has

lives has been created by God, not by man himself. This may appear to be a simple fact, but it is one that man usually forgets in his everyday life. Since, we are living in God’s world, we have no alternative

build another world for themselves—one which satisfies their own requirements; for, in the world that God has created, their dreams can never come true.

him what the sound was. He was told that it was Azan, the call to prayer and the glorification of God. He was astounded for that was the same sound and the same words to the best of his memory that he

embraced Islam. As a result of that, he lost his coveted job. But, according to him, he had found God, and nothing else mattered.” On reading these reports, the founder and President of the Centre for

strange it is that Muslims have not discharged their responsibility to communicate the creation plan of God to Armstrong and others yet they are only too willing to concoct stories about their religion having

are two ways of countering adversity—one by the peaceful method, the other by the violent method. God tells us to renounce the violent method in favour of the peaceful method. Violence is basically an

Conversely, it is the modest, who in the face of adversity, tread the path of peace. In this world of God, destruction awaits those who indulge in egoism, while success awaits those who conduct themselves

same point has been underlined in a Hadith— “One who chooses the way of modesty will be raised up by God.” HADITH reported by AT-TIRMIZI So the secret of peaceful living is to sedulously avoid any ego-clash