make interactions synonymous with facing annoyances. In addition, when someone who calls others to God, interacts with others, he has to bear with different kinds of hardships and inconveniences. These

very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.” (ibid) This means the scientific study of the universe has

the changes taking place in the present world have opened up new vistas for conveying the message of God to people. These changes have made it possible for Islam to be presented to the modern man in the modern

THE WORD OF GODFrom The Scriptures The Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between CE 610 and 632. It is a book that brings glad

One who does not believe in this will be devoid of all goodness; he will be neglectful of prayer to God; he will not be ashamed of pushing over a weak person; he will not think it necessary to discharge

misfortunes, provided one remains patient and perseveres in one’s struggles, never losing hope of God’s succour.

with his Lord. So far, he had been confronted with humans like himself; now he is face to face with God, infinitely greater than himself. Up till then, he had been in a world where he had power of his own

but now he finds himself absolutely powerless. Man, the most helpless of creatures, will come before God the All-Powerful—a meeting so awesome that it is almost beyond imagining. People are dying here on

life. We are too preoccupied with improving our position in society to consolidate our relation with God. We think of every human being in worldly terms. So, when a person dies, the loss we feel is mundane

Death and God’s Creation Plana spiritually prepared person. In conventional materialistic terms, a prepared person is someone who has acquired professional education, who is popular among people, who talks

stands firm in his conviction amid a jungle of doubts. He has made God his sole concern. He has quashed his ego and is devoted to God. He remains steadfast in positive thinking even in negative conditions

from hatred, he has a deep concern for human welfare. Despite having freedom, he submits to God. Death and God’s Creation Plan Our world is based on the principle of pairs. Here, everything is found in

God as the greatest Benefactor. Then his heart and mind should be filled with the awareness of God’s blessings. He must recognize God as a Being, who is raining down His countless blessings upon him. This

This consciousness should be so strong that in no way should the feelings of gratefulness to God be absent from his heart. But this is no simple matter. To keep oneself brimming with feelings of thankfulness

his feeling of thanksgiving will remain alive. His heart will never be bereft of the awareness of God’s blessings. In the present world it is inevitable that there should be inequality. Some have more

for them since time immemorial. God’s universe is a perfect collection of different entities. Here, every single thing works in just the same way as has been commanded by God, without even the most minor

that God has declared to be out of bounds for him. A human being is a very small part of God’s creation. But he revolts against the collective system of the vast universe. He creates strife in God’s perfectly

perfectly organized world. He injects contradictions in God’s contradiction-free cosmos. He brings about disharmony in the harmonious cosmic whole. It is like smearing a beautiful painting and adding something

Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.” The representative of the Quraysh, Suhayl ibn Amr said that he had no idea what the word “Rahman”— the Beneficent-meant. “Write, ‘In Your Name, O God’ as we are

into by Muhammad, the Messenger of God.” Again Suhayl objected. “If we had considered you to be the Messenger of God, we would not have barred you from the House of God, neither would we have fought against

against you; write instead ‘Muhammad, son of Abdullah’.” Ali had already written ‘The Messenger of God.’ The Prophet told him to strike out these words, but he said he could not. So the Prophet himself struck

SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GODThe Perfection of Natural Laws NATURE is the subject of science. Science studies nature and discovers those laws through which nature is being governed. In other words, science

cannot help arrive at the conclusion that God exists. A number of books have been written on this subject. A recent one is ‘Why Science Does Not Disprove God’, written by Amir D. Aczel (d. 2015), a lecturer

which energy and matter can materialize out of nothing. Krauss’s punch line is that we do not need God to create the universe. The quantum foam can do it quite nicely all on its own. Aczel asks the obvious