now the time is fast approaching when his death is certain and he will be held accountable before God. Acknowledgement of this shakes a man up. It forces him to think of the Hereafter. Indeed old age tells

me and walked carefully along the path.” The Companion remarked, “That is how one goes in fear of God.” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 1/164) The present world is a testing ground. Here, to put a person to the test

for the arrival of reinforcements. On this particular occasion, the Muslims, by the sheer grace of God, were victorious. But Umar considered that Khalid had been hasty and imprudent in this action. Shah

freedom as a test whereas he had thought it was his right; he had taken what was God’s to be his own; he was responsible to God for his actions, but he lived under the misapprehension that, whatever he did

disparity and difference. Total consistency is an extremely rare quality, one that can only be found in God. It is beyond any human being to compose a work of absolute consistency. For a work to be free of inconsistency

possess: he must be able to see things, not in a prejudiced light, but as they actually are. Only God can possess all these extraordinary qualities. For this reason, only His Word will remain perennially

mind boggling. Science is not a religious subject and its concern is certainly not the discovery of God. The subject of science is simply the objective study of creation. However, the study of creation naturally

aspects of the Creator. The findings of study on nature are, in other words, discoveries of the signs of God, which have been called ayatullah in the Quran (51:20). From this perspective, it would be right to

according to God’s Book which had been entrusted to their care; and to which they were witnesses. (Quran 5:44) But why do they come to you for judgement when they have the Torah, which enshrines God’s own judgement

according to God’s Book which had been entrusted to their care; and to which they were witnesses. (Quran 5:44) But why do they come to you for judgement when they have the Torah, which enshrines God’s own judgement

one youth had to say in reply: “My people, let us hurry and be the first to follow this man, for, by God, the People of the Book used to tell us that a prophet would arise from the Sacred Territory, and that

compatriots along with them, the truth could only be seen in terms of who controlled the Kabah, the House of God in Makkah. In ancient Arab tradition, the Kabah was thought of as a King’s crown. In fact, its symbolism

vehicle in the AI-Risala monthly which I started in 1976. AI-Risala’s mission has, by the grace of God, assumed the form of a powerful movement all over the Muslim world. I frequently receive oral or written

women’s liberationists to be able to perform what she regarded as her bounden duty in the eyes of God. Whereas my brothers and I set about our tasks in life in a reasoned, conscious manner, for her it