celebrated with much gusto. But the more appropriate thing is to consider this day as a day for the remembrance of one’s impending death. The fact is that for all of us, the countdown of our life is happening
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THE WORD OF GODFrom The Scriptures
THE Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 A.D. It is a book that brings glad
name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Alif Lam Mim. The Romans have been defeated in a nearby land. They will reverse their defeat with a victory within a few years: [for] with God rests all
decision, first and last. On that day the believers too will have cause to rejoice, with the help of God. He helps whom He pleases: He is the Mighty, and the Merciful. (30: 1-5)
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struggles of life which would culminate by the grace of God with the rewards of everlasting Paradise.FASTING: A TRAINING IN SELF-RESTRAINTFasting, a form of divine worship is observed for one month every
of fasting, man abstains from food and water from sunrise to sunset in obedience to the command of God. This act is performed in order to reduce man’s attraction towards materialism and increase his spirituality
to lead a truly spiritual life in this world. In the process, he spends more time in the worship of God.
In chapter 2, verse 185, the Quran tells us that fasting awakens the feeling of gratefulness in man
JANUARY 1
God: The Light of the UniverseWe have been told in the Quran that ‘God is the light of the heavens and the earth.’ (24:35) That is, all the light in the entire universe emanates from God’s Being
of this intellectual and spiritual light is God and God alone. It cannot be obtained from any other source.
When man truly and sincerely believes in one God, he establishes a link with Him on a spiritual
illumined by this spiritual attachment. He begins to find God in His remembrances. He begins to find God reflected in the tears that well up in his eyes. God is so instilled in his thoughts and feelings, it is
Islam, shall receive light from his Lord. But woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah! Truly, they are in the grossest error (39:21-22).
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teach. But only those who are capable of going deeper into the subject will learn anything from them.
God has planned the external world in such a fashion that everything in it serves as a sign of the Higher
verse of the Quran: “Say, ‘Who guards you by night and by day from the Beneficent God?’ Yet they turn away from the remembrance of their Lord.” (21:42).
Some years ago, an Indian national daily carried this
Hereafter.This shows that what is truly desired of man is that he should lead a life of remembrance and glorification of God. What is desirable in this world is equally desirable in the next world. The actual
actual aim of tazkiyah is to bring into existence such purified souls as may glorify God and become a part of the life Hereafter.
One task assigned to man in this present world was to bring civilization into
promoted nudity or semi-nudity in the name of fashion, and so on. That is why on the Day of Judgement God will select righteous people who will be given the opportunity to establish a divine civilization.
others.A STRANGE FORGETFULNESSDeath is a great revolutionary concept. But no one entertains the remembrance of death, so no revolution takes place in people’s lives. Consciously or unconsciously they think
In the book entitled Love of God: Making God One's Supreme Concern, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan writes that the strongest human feeling or emotion is that of love. When man makes something his supreme concern, it naturally happens that a feeling of love becomes associated with that thing. In religious terminology, this is called “deification”. Th...
institutions in the name of prophets. It was with great enthusiasm that they included days for the remembrance of various prophets in their calendar: But it was only ancient prophets whom they revered in this
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