on. It reminds us how utterly helpless a person truly is. An earthquake is a prior indication from God that tells us what is finally going to happen to every one of us one day – the Day of Judgment. It

this being so, they do not feel any urge to begin leading righteous lives to atone for their sins. God Almighty, however, has given us not only our two eyes with which to perceive the external world, but

will appear in later times and that it will become a sign of God. This aspect of the Ark has been mentioned in the Quran more than once. But this is not touched upon in the Bible. This was an indication

This is to mark the end of leading a life on earth in which God’s creation plan is ignored. ‘This will be the time to bring before man God’s preserved book—the Quran—because the Quran is the only book

book which describes clearly the history of the prophets and God’s creation plan.’ Doomsday is the day when reality will appear in its absolute form. Prior to it, the appearance of Noah’s Ark will be the

sunnat, of God. God’s sunnat in this regard is that He sends warnings to communities or peoples to wake them up. This is a sort of shock treatment to jolt people and make them reform themselves. As God says

the water.' Noah replied to his son that the flood was a divine matter—'the flood waters are sent by God'—and no mountain could protect him from this. THE QURAN, 11: 43 People make full use of divine

perversion set in amongst these people, God sent them His messenger, Noah, to whom He granted a very long life. He had a very long struggle trying to communicate God’s message to his people. But with the exception

time has ultimately come when man has to change himself: he has to abandon the way of disobedience to God and opt for the path of obedience to Him. Nature is silently calling upon man to mend his ways before

most tremendous significance: it is a sign of his having had God’s assistance in whatever he did. It was because he was God’s prophet, God’s representative on this earth, that the Almighty gave him His

proved him over and over again not only to be an outstanding human being but to be the true Prophet of God. What is even more important is that the Prophet’s success laid the groundwork for the permanent preservation

Prophet presented it to the world. In the past, the need for a new Prophet had always arisen because God’s religion, suffering from the vagaries of time had been frequently distorted from its original form

negations, as in maja’ni ahadun—”no one came to see me.” But in using ahad as an attribute of Almighty God, the Quran put the word to an entirely novel use. The Quran brought many foreign words into Arabic

Hadith No. 3444) I was reminded of this hadith and while thinking about this hadith I was moved that God was giving great rewards to people today, but these rewards were for those who had done some good deed

negations, as in maja’ni ahadun—”no one came to see me.” But in using ahad as an attribute of Almighty God, the Quran put the word to an entirely novel use. The Quran brought many foreign words into Arabic