Attachment to God Prayer, calling upon God, is an unceasing activity. It is an expression of one’s unending and heartfelt attachment to God at all times. Prayer means calling upon God. This means that God’s servant

worship. God is a living and eternal existence. He hears, He sees, He has the power to do what He wants and sets the course of events in whatever direction He wants. It is this conviction about God which

person achieves God realization, he naturally has an urge to call upon God to meet his needs. He should call upon God for the blessings of this world and the Hereafter. He should acknowledge God as his Sustainer

man not to accept the real God as God, but it is not possible for anyone to save himself or herself from granting the status of divinity to something other than God. Making God one’s object of worship raises

man’s position. On the contrary, regarding something other than God as God amounts to descending from the level of humanity. Submission to God is the only way of life for both man and the universe.

LOVE: A TWO-SIDED MATTERGod’s love for a person is like a divine gift, and the love for God by God’s servant is a matter of gratitude and acknowledgement. This is the key to entering Paradise. There is

tradition recorded in the books of Hadith, one part of which is: “The Prophet of Islam once observed that God would not cast anyone in the fire whom He loved.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 13467) This Hadith has

one who, upon reflection, realizes God, the Creator, who discovers God as the Benefactor, will become endeared to God. All his emotions and feelings will attach to God. When one reaches this state as a

realization that God is All-Powerful, the Giver, while man is only a taker becomes articulate, it is described as the glorification of the Lord. The Quran has repeatedly urged man to glorify God. There

glorification in relation to God, that is to say, man’s expressions of God’s glory and majesty. The relation between God and man is that of Giver and Taker. A servant has nothing to give to God. The only thing he

he can offer God is to discover God as the Lord of the worlds, as the All-Powerful Being. Realization is the name of this discovery. When a servant strives towards God, that is, engages in deep thinking

observing the cosmic microwave background radiations: “The ripples are no less than the handwriting of God.” George Fitzgerald Smoot III (b. 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He won the Noble

bhi theek hai!” I told him, “You seem to be a different kind of person. Why?” He laughed and said, “God Almighty made me and threw the mould away!” In life, you should not try to eliminate stress. Instead

influential people in Makkah—Umar ibn Khattab and Abu Jahl ibn Hisham. The Prophet offered a prayer to God: ‘Lord, strengthen Islam by

irritation and generally displaying a positive attitude attracts a far greater reward. In the eyes of God, people who show such restraint will be reckoned as being the righteous (16:128). The righteous are

expressed thus: “God’s embodiment in human form.” The concept of incarnation is originally a philosophic construct. The ancient philosophers held that there was a God of this universe, but that God was a kind

When this God wanted to manifest Himself, he took human form. It is this which is called “avtarvaad” in the Hindu religion. According to this concept, God is essentially an impersonal God, but in different

nearness between God and man does take place but God and man do not become one entity. Rather what happens is that when the servant becomes a true sajid (one who prostrates himself before God), at a psychological

GOD-ORIENTED LIFEone person and another but between an individual and God. So far as human beings are concerned, all have the same position as all others but as compared to God, there is no human being

beings are equally God’s creatures. God looks upon everyone with the same eye. He does not differentiate between his creatures. GOD-ORIENTED LIFE A believer keeps to the path of God. Living in higher realities

not of temporary gains, but of accountability to God and the Hereafter. The aim of Islam is to develop in individuals the ability to lead a life of God-worship in this world, and an abhorrence of the ungodly