(‘rights of God’), and huquq ul-ibaad (‘rights of God’s creatures’). The former refers to the responsibilities that a person should fulfill in relation to God. If he errs with regard to the ‘rights of God’, to

enough for him to ask for forgiveness from God. But the issue of huquq ul-ibaad is very serious. If a person errs in a matter related to the ‘rights of God’s creatures’—say, by committing an offence against

against another human being—then he cannot atone for it only by asking forgiveness from God. Along with asking God for forgiveness, it is incumbent on him to also ask forgiveness from the concerned person

pretence to it; who fear God, though they are in a position to do the opposite; who have the chance to attach importance to themselves, but refrain from doing so, putting God first. Such people consider

are directly provided for by God, though such provision is concealed beneath a veil of worldly causes. They have opportunities to oppress and exploit people, but fear of God prevents them from doing so

for them, they are balanced enough to retain their humility. God may have endowed them with abundant wealth, but they spend their wealth as God would wish. It is not personal satisfaction that they seek;

How to Attain God’s Neighbourhoodof it. He eagerly awaits it. This thing is the Number One item on his wish list. In this present world there is no one who doesn’t have something or the other as the focus

person of faith in God is he who has written Paradise on his wish list—the world of eternal and perfect blessings, where he will see his Lord, where he will live in the shade of God’s blessings, where he

and delights that have no limits. How to Attain God’s Neighbourhood What is Paradise? Paradise is actually the name for living in the neighbourhood of God (Quran 66:11). In the world before death, a person

the wrath of God, his Maker. One who fasts in all sincerity takes care to cast his entire life in the one consistent mould. In all of his affairs, he applies the constraints laid down by God. He checks

anything, we should be grateful to God in acknowledgment of His bounty, and utter these words ‘All praise and thankfulness is due to God, the Lord of the Worlds.’ Praise of God, in its true spirit, is the essence

blessing of God. Man’s extremely balanced body is a blessing of God. The entire world created so favourably for man is a blessing of God. When this reality dawns on man and he realizes God’s immeasurable

God’s Prophetsand in the clouds that are driven between earth and sky; surely in this there are signs for people who understand. Yet there are some people who choose from other beings besides God, as rivals

rivals to God, loving them as God alone should be loved—whereas those who believe love God more than all else. If the evil-doers could only see, when they behold the doom, that power lies with God alone and

and that God is severe in punishment. When those who were followed disown their followers and they behold the doom, and their cords are cut asunder, those who followed will say, “If only a return were

Does God Exist?Does god exist? My answer to this question is in the affirmative. Based on my study and my experience, I can say with full conviction that God exists. There is no doubt about it. When I

I say that God exists, I say this in the scientific sense and not in the popular sense. People generally believe that they are in a position to prove or disprove anything. But this is not the scientific

of whether God exists itself raises another question. Studies in anthropology, that is, the science of man, have established that the concept of God is ingrained in human nature. Belief in God runs in our

No pain or apprehension will mar its delight. Man will find there all that he desires. People of God Everyone lives for something or another. Some live for their families. Some for money. Some for worldly

lived for God’s sake alone. When one lives for God, one’s entire life revolves around Him. One’s thoughts and desires are focused on Him alone. One thinks about what pleases and displeases God when one

one’s movements to the bounds that God has laid down. The human brain inevitably forms some sort of response to any message that it receives. Those who live for God will produce divinely inspired responses

has legitimately acquired, it is, as it were, snatching something given by God. By doing so, that person tries to go against God’s plan. Suppose someone gets a house, and some other people plot to make him

in what God has arranged. It is a war against the All- Powerful God by absolutely powerless creatures. What do such actions amount to? God wants something, but these people do not want it. God decided

people in a particular way, but these human beings do not agree to this. These people’s defiance of God appears to work in this world, but this apparent success is only because in this world, people have

argument against God 6. Due to the exigency of putting man to the test, God wants this work to be given special priority. This is a divine mission which is carried out by men, on behalf of God, and they are

are, therefore, rewarded for it by God in the hereafter. Here are some verses from the Quran to underline this point: Believers, be God’s helpers. When Jesus, son of Mary, said to the disciples: ‘Who will

will come with me to the help of God?’ The disciples replied: ‘We shall be God’s helpers.’ Some of the Children of Israel believed in him while others did not. We supported the believers against their enemies

Realization of God is unrelated to any romantic love for God. It relates to the deeper feeling in a person that his future depends solely on one God. He can have his beloved Paradise only when God gives it to

the dreaded hell only when God saves him. It is only when this kind of deep consciousness develops in one that the door to realization of God opens to him. Realization of God is no philosophic concept

the realization of God. In this matter he should develop a heightened sense of discovery to the extent that he starts feeling with great intensity that without the attainment of God’s realization his existence