God as the most superior Being, and acknowledge Him as such in the innermost recesses of their hearts and minds. They have truly dedicated themselves to God and God has become their supreme concern.Their

thinking has become God-oriented in the full sense. Those who develop this kind of relationship with God begin to live in the presence of God, that is, they begin to live in the vicinity of God in this world

experiencing closeness to God in the life of this world itself, in the hereafter they will be blessed with a far greater degree of closeness to Him.INTENSE LOVE OF GODWhen man discovers that God created him, gave

GODWhen man discovers that God created him, gave him a life support system and arranged for his guidance through prophets, then his heart overflows with love for and gratitude to God. The second chapter of

Quran states that believers are “those who love God most.” (2:165) According to this verse, the sign of a true believer is his capacity for intense love for God. The truth is that love is produced within man

man as a response. When man discovers God, his greatest benefactor, his heart is filled with a vast ocean of love. This intense love by its nature is the result of discovery. It is not just the carrying

believed in God as a matter of tradition. But once his father, James Mill, said something to him, which put an end to his belief in God. His father asked, “If God created man, who created God?” Without doubt

doubt the greatest hurdle in achieving God- realization is that, whereas God is limitless, man’s mind has its limits. The matter of maarifah, in actual fact, is to attempt to discover a limitless being

maarifah. Without surmounting this hurdle, no one can be credited with attaining God-realization. The discovery of God is different from other discoveries. For instance, gravity is also a subject of discovery

matter is between men, then how can it be said that he can concoct such a great lie in the matter of God? This dialogue took place when Abu Sufyan himself had not yet accepted Islam and had actually been

deadliest antagonists could recognize his virtues is in itself ample evidence of being a Prophet of God. M. Abul Fazal, in his Life of Mohammad, quotes Dt. Leitner as saying: “If there be such a process

concept of unity (vahdat) does not exist between God and man, but in Islam the concept of the nearness between God and man is valid in the perfect sense.GLORIFICATION OF GODHamd or acknowledgment entails

blessings he receives from God. Offering the utmost gratitude to God enables one to gain entry into Paradise. Man is required to glorify God.That is to say that a believer’s God realization should be so

so deep that he may acknowledge God from the innermost recesses of his heart. From the Quran we learn that this, the glorification of God, is also required from the whole world of nature. According to the

be a genuine call to God, even if it is done in His name. Calling people to God aims at directing their attention neither to politics nor to national issues. It is unequivocally the task of making people

people focus on God and must, therefore, be performed in the correct spirit. What does ‘calling people to God’ mean? Primarily, its purpose is to acquaint man with the creation plan of God. He should be told

told what his relationship with God is, and how God is going to deal with him in future. In other words, this is like introducing man to God. Its objective is to awaken man from his slumber, cause him

For one who discovers God, the entire universe becomes an open book of God for him. Every leaf of a tree becomes a page of the divine book. When he sees the sun, he feels as if God is lighting His heavenly

book clearly. The Universe becomes, as it were, a supernal university and he its student. Finding God is to find his centre of Love. Man by birth is a seeker of a Supreme Being who is far above him, who

discovery of God saves one from regarding something 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

with the capacity to play his role in the world, which he can do provided he understand the abilities God has given him, and utilizes them.

awakens before his “83 years” are over! After their “83 years”, all are destined to appear before God. Wise is the one who tries to prepare himself for this moment. This is referred in the Quran as “The

his mission in Makkah, a town of Arabia, to propagate the ideology of monotheism—belief in the one God and worshipping Him alone. It was the first quarter of the seventh century and in those times the Arabs

years prior to this, the Prophet Abraham had built a mosque in Makkah in which to worship the one God. It is this mosque which is called the Kaaba. But, in later periods, people belonging to various Arab