that his neighbours are not happy with him, then such a person’s faith in Islam will become suspect. For any person the first criterion for his humanity and his religiosity derives from how his neighbour

possible to tell whether or not he possesses human feelings, or whether or not he is sensitive to Islamic commandments. If a person’s neighbour is happy with him, it is a proof that he lives up to the tandards

neighbour is not happy with him, it will be a proof that he falls below this standard. According to Islam, a believer must unilaterally make concessions to his neighbours. He should ignore any unpleasant

Hereafter, only those will be rewarded who are held to be deserving because of their inner qualities. In Islam human equality is regarded as of utmost important. At prayers, all believers stand in rows with one

countries wear the same attire to perform the pilgrimage. In Islam everyone has the same position as all others, neither less nor more. By Islamic light, all kinds of greatness are reserved for God alone.

today find it hard to believe that Islam may be a religion of peace. But if Muslims stop engaging in violent activities and give people the opportunity to appreciate Islam in its original form, then certainly

certainly a great number of people would realise, as they never had before, that Islam was a peaceful religion and they would rush to it, saying that it was exactly the religion which their souls had been

introduction to Islam, presented in simple and concise language, which might provide children with fundamental religious instruction and also be useful to adults who want to understand the teachings of Islam. By the

consists of five parts, the names of which are as follows: The Way to Find God, The Teachings of Islam, The Good Life, The Garden of Paradise and The Fire of Hell. The pamphlet is the first in this series

STRENGTHThe Islamic struggle is essentially a personal one, motivated by an overpowering urge for salvation in the next world, a longing that God should forgive us when we come before Him. When Islam penetrates

avoid displeasing God. It is on the hereafter that we focus all our attention. We call others to Islam, making sure that we are first good Muslims ourselves: Say: “I was commanded to be the first to submit

improvement of society at large. Comparing this sequence with the method adopted by the Prophet of Islam,

been of no avail, and each has ended up in one kind of nihilism or another.19 Before the advent of Islam, the world was in the grip of polytheism. Polytheistic thoughts ruled men’s minds. The creature had

result, his whole way of thinking had gone awry, and the door to all progress remained locked. Then Islam came to the world. Its main objective was to put an end to polytheism and to give monotheism the place

civilization. This civilization initially came into being in Western Europe under the influence of the Islamic revolution. Its influence later spread all over the world. The negative aspect of this civilization

successors, continued to make it their mission to disseminate the teachings of Islam, to the point where finally, the message of Islam had reached the greater part of the known, inhabited world of that age. This

to end, was carried out in an entirely peaceful manner. The mere introduction of the ideology of Islam was sufficient to conquer the hearts of the people. British historian, Sir Arthur Keith writes of

This is true not only of the Egyptians, but also of all other nations which entered the fold of Islam. A detailed account of this peaceful spread of God’s religion is given in

STRENGTHThe Islamic struggle is essentially a personal one, motivated by an overpowering urge for salvation in the next world, a longing that God should forgive us when we come before Him. When Islam penetrates

avoid displeasing God. It is on the hereafter that we focus all our attention. We call others to Islam, making sure that we are first good Muslims ourselves: Say: “I was commanded to be the first to submit

improvement of society at large. Comparing this sequence with the method adopted by the Prophet of Islam,

fell on the 6th of May, and Muslims decided to observe the occasion as a day marking the glory of Islam. The roads and narrow lanes of the Muslim localities of Bhiwandi— that are lined with filth, and which

green flags as a sign of the Muslims’ ‘Islamic zeal’. During this, some Muslims supplanted a Shiv Sena flag with a green flag, which, so they thought, was an ‘Islamic’ one. In this extremely tense situation

numbers of innocent lives 1 This is the night preceding the 15th day of the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. Some Muslims consider this night as sacred, although there is no reference for this in

the rule of the Abbasid Caliph, al-Mamun (813-833). When alMamun came to know that the enemies of Islam declared that it owed its success to the sword and not to the power of argument, he summoned a great

Professor Arnold says: “Al-Mamun himself was very zealous in his efforts to spread the faith of Islam ... but he did not abuse his royal power by attempting to force his faith upon others.” 101 One of

in which he was utterly silenced, so impressed was he by Islam’s power of the argument. The Caliph then tried to induce him to embrace Islam. But Yazdanbakht refused, saying, “Commander of the Faithful