THE SPIRIT OF LEARNINGRealize Your Potential GOD created man with great potential and at the same time, He has given him complete freedom of choice. It is this freedom that divides people into two categories—those

and study the divine scriptures revealed to the prophets. He should find out his purpose in life and God Almighty’s design regarding his creation. After taking into account all these facts, he should plan

struggle to find the reality of life, education is of the greatest importance. The first message given by God to the Prophet was about learning. This guidance from the Quran revolutionized the minds of the Prophet

other than God as God and mistakenly and unrealistically thinking it to be the answer to the urge inherent in his nature. The discovery of God is to fulfill his or her real urge to find God. And the failure

failure to discover God means failing to find that which is man’s greatest need. One who fails to find God is compelled by his natural urge to give the place of God to something other than God. This place is

fails to discover God, or he becomes a denier of God, it is not in his or her power to stifle the urge in his nature to find God. That is why those men and women who have not found God inevitably come to

themselves hold great significance for human beings, because these methods are natural methods, bestowed by God. Nature directly teaches these methods to animals. It is as if animals are students who have received

emergency situation. Animals did not invent these above-cited methods of protection by themselves. It was God who taught them, so these methods have divine sanction. They are not a form or expression of cowardice

by the sword. The other equivalent term of jihad is dawah, or the task of conveying the message of God to people. ‘Do jihad’ and ‘Do dawah’ are both equivalent terms. When the Quran tries to refer to war

for the dissemination of Islamic principles which are essentially based on tawhid (the oneness of God). To understand Islam, you have to judge Islam based on its original text. And, you have to judge

message. This task had two aspects: firstly, the duty assigned to him as a Messenger of God entailed the performance of the task of communication of the divine message, and secondly, the same task served

who deny the truth made it a prestige issue [in their hearts]—the bigotry of the days of ignorance—God sent His tranquillity

advance. Such realism, the mainspring of a reformed life, is attainable only through sincere worship of God, self-effacement before His greatness and avowal of one’s own insignificance and lack of perfection

in the wars came and asked him why he did not join those wars since God had commanded in the Quran to fight against fitna (persecution). According to Abdullah ibn Umar the command of the Qur’an to fight

silence. But such unity is at the animal level. Human unity is that which arises from the fear of God and thoughts of the life Hereafter. The latter form of unity is of a higher level and more enduring

message. This task had two aspects: firstly, the duty assigned to him as a Messenger of God entailed the performance of the task of communication of the divine message, and secondly, the same task served