THE EXISTENCE OF GODDiscover Your Helplessness SINCE the past five hundred years, the scientific study of the universe has been underway. Numerous great minds have been involved in research and findings

which goes beyond the realm of space and time? The truth is that in this world a person can discover God only at the level of his helplessness and not at the level of absolute knowledge.

effect that moves their hearts and minds. Their hearts become filled with the thoughts of God. The eyes experience God’s proximity by their shedding of tears. Hajj is not only a superior form of worship, but

The right way is to make technology life’s servant, while following a Godoriented life should be the basis of culture. Choosing a God-oriented life should be a matter of one’s research where one discovers

differentiate between the messengers of God. God has sent a prophet or messenger to every group and community of people in this world. All the messengers of God enjoy an equal status. In the chapter entitled

al Bukhari) This Quranic verse and the Hadith relates directly to the messengers or the prophets of God, but it also has a broader application, according to which everyone is worthy of respect, regardless

” agreed the Prophet, but you were always able to beat back those who attacked you.” “Messenger of God,” said these men from the Banu Harith ibn Kaab, “We used to get the better of those who attacked us

his high moral character. On the one hand, he communicated to them the message of tawhid (oneness of God) with love and kindness and, on the other, fulfilled all of their human rights. That is why the people

seeing it, the Prophet stood up in deference to the deceased person. One of his Companions said: “O God’s messenger, it was the funeral of a Jew (not a Muslim).” The Prophet replied: “Was he not a human being

everyone to accord equal respect to others as all men and women are creatures of one and the same God. All are descendants of Adam and Eve. Everyone has certainly the right to adopt one religion according

system based on a pious leadership. We regard this struggle as a means to acquire the pleasure of God, in this world and in the Hereafter.’ ‘It is this,’ he wrote, ‘that we have made our goal.’ He bemoaned

Traditions. Its source is the outpourings of poets, preachers and writers, and certainly not the Book of God or the Traditions of the Prophet. According to a famous hadith, all forms of reform depend on the

telling them about heaven and hell so that their hearts are softened. It requires reminding them of God’s signs so as to awaken their

beginning of the Quran, the first invocation reads: “In the name of God, the most Merciful, the most Beneficent.” Throughout the Quran, God’s name is thus invoked no less than 114 times. Moreover, the Quran

the Quran is the exercise of patience. Yet today, the self-styled ‘Muslim Mujahideen’ have equated “God is Great” with “War is Great.” For them, the greatest reward is to be able to wield a Kalashnikov rifle

been exhorting their co-religionists to do battle all over the world. But the Quran says: ‘...and God calls to the home of peace’ (10:25). It is up to right-thinking people everywhere to reject the militant