which God granted that I should do by His grace and mercy. So far as my experience goes, dua with ism-e-azaam is not at all a repetition of words, learned by rote and neither is it a dua which one can think

(1739-1854) is a famous poet of the Urdu language. One of his couplets reads: Gul hai rang rang se hai zinat-e-chaman ai Zauq is jahan ko hai zeib ikhtilaf se (A variety of flowers of different hues and shapes make

during the lifetime of the Prophet. Among his companions were a select group of about half a dozen katib-e-wahy — transcribers of the revelations. A few of these scribes were always present and whenever any

could we glean from such an astoundingly tragic year? The answer, in fact, is not far to seek. Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) describes the most enduring aspect of human beings in his groundbreaking work thus:

the Prophet) and 7. Idkhal-e-Kalima (Age of Global Divine Call). After the emergence of these signs, God will command the angel Israfil to blow the trumpet. Then, suddenly, human history, having passed

followed Ignorance (ahl-e jahiliyat) the right to remain established in their ignorant (jahili) beliefs and to allow them to continue to follow their ignorant ways to the extent that the impact of their

the responsibility they are charged with. The period extending from towards the end of the Khilafat-e-Rashida, the age of the ‘Rightly-Guided Caliphs’, through the Umayyad Caliphate and down to the end

the message of Islam.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 23814) 5. In the Introduction to my book Aqliyat-e Islam, first published in 1978, I wrote: “In the Free World, extraordinary new possibilities for dawah