It is in fact irreligiousness in the name of religion. It is a case of deviation from Islam in the name of Islam. Such efforts can never bring divine succour, this being so, such efforts can never succeed

relates rather to all social matters. In present times, one destructive form of giving short measure is what is referred to as one-sided reporting. This evil is commonplace among the Muslims. Many of the Muslim

this having happened are different in respect of the West and Islamic civilizations. In the case of the latter, it is deviation from Islamic principles which has caused the rot to set in, whereas in the

Nobel Sperm Bank and explained the kind of child she wanted, she was advised that sperm number 28 was what she needed. (Donors of sperm remain unnamed and are given a code number.) Dr. Blake duly became pregnant

Palestine. The elder son, Ishmael, was appointed to Makkah in Hejaz, where he founded a centre for Islam, the House of God, in Makkah. Abraham, after settling his son in that barren land, prayed to God to

preaching life are symbolically repeated over a short period during the Hajj. Arriving at the centre of Islam after undertaking a journey, circumambulation of the House of God, running between Safa and Marwah

whom be peace, said, “Stay at your mashair (place of stay during Hajj) for you are the inheritor of what your patriarch, Abraham, has passed on to you” (Mishkat, Kitab al-Manasik). According to the Quran

man, now after this brainstorming, he becomes a superman. Then comes da‘wah, that is, the call to Islam. According to the Quran, da‘wah is the great jihad. Why is da‘wah the great jihad, or great struggle

level of intellectual and spiritual development. Iman (faith) and da‘wah are two basic levels of Islam. If iman is a superior ideology, da‘wah is a superior course of action. Iman purifies one’s mind and

and soul, while da‘wah imbues one’s personality with a sublime probity. One who adopts Islam as a universal mission, in both the ideological and practical sense, is morally activated to the maximum possible

This book is a brief introduction to this aspect of the Islamic revolution. I intended to present an exhaustive study of the subject, but the work of collecting information was progressing too slowly.

titled Encyclopaedia of Hindu Mythology. This is the case with all religions. All the faiths save Islam may be classified as mythologies rather than religions in the scientific and historical sense. The

chemistry is based on facts proved by strictly scientific methods. This same difference is found between Islam and other religions, the latter being like ancient alchemy, whereas the former is like modern chemistry

sincerely makes a comparative study of religions of both kinds will inevitably discover it. Hence Islam is the only choice for those who seek a religion with a credible historical base

worthy of respect and trust, he commented, the ‘real power of Islam’, is ‘the group of those with ihsan (muhsinin), and the work that Islam wants should get done in the world can be done by this group.’

to the Truth In the political interpretation of Islam, bearing witness to the Truth is considered to be incomplete without the establishment of Islamic Government. Thus, in his Shahadat-e Haq (‘Witness

new chapter in Islamic history by introducing Islam to Japan, ended up by merely adding his name to the prison records. This is true of all Muslim rulers. If you engage yourself in Islamic dawah, they are

engaged in political battles with their rulers on one count or another, to the extent that the word ‘Islamic dawah’ has, for Muslim rulers, become almost synonymous with subversion. Such nefarious practices