effect. That is why he fails to receive any divine inspiration from life’s events. The concept of God is ingrained in human nature to the utmost extent. One demonstration of this is that when a person

calling out to the one and only God. He is made to experience such adversity so that he may mould his conduct accordingly. This temporary recognition of God’s godhead should become a permanent feature

feature in his life. But, unfortunately, that same person who remembers God in the tempest, forgets God as soon as he safely reaches the shore.

of the present world has discovered the secret of the lasting success of the next period of life. God made the present world according to a plan that every person should be engaged in ‘toil’. But, on the

man fell sick and the Prophet went to visit him. When he got there, the Prophet said: “Don’t worry, God willing, it will be a means of purification.” Now, this does not mean that when someone falls sick

servant of God. In this way, illness serves to distance the believer from other things and takes him closer to God. He turns his attention to God. He begins to remember God. He prays to God and beseeches

beseeches Him. Sickness becomes a means for him to come near to God. On the face of it, illness is an undesirable thing. But if you have a proper way of looking at it your bodily illness will become a means

that their healthy body is entirely a gift from God. Seldom do they think that they should bow before God in acknowledgment of this gift. Likewise, as long as a person is alive, he thinks that this life

successful in the test that human beings are being put to. In contrast, someone who doesn’t acknowledge God and is completely heedless that he has to die one day miserably fails the test of life.

learn that his freedom was not his own: this freedom was rather granted to him by another Being, God Almighty. Death all of a sudden will tell him that the life, prior to death, was meant for action and

Islam whose goal is God-realization. The ultimate reality in Islam is God. God is the Creator of man. Man’s purpose in life is to realize God and worship Him. According to Islam, God is separate from man

man. He is self-existent. Man’s goal in life is to try to seek this separate and permanent God at the level of consciousness. The method of meditation practised in Sufism (mysticism) is generally regarded

heavens and the Earth, and in the alternation of night and day for people of understanding; who remember God while standing, sitting and [lying] on their sides, and who ponder over the creation of the heavens

FASTINGWhile giving commands regarding fasting, the Quran makes special mention of dua (remembering God). “When My servants ask you about Me, say that I am near. I respond to the call of one who calls, whenever

this world only that person finds God who surrenders himself to God. And only the words of that person reach God whose spiritual chords are linked with the chord of God. All souls are not blessed with ineffable

ineffable feelings of nearness to God. This good fortune is destined only for those who possess a fine soul. Dua is calling to God. It is not just a verbal act. In essence, it is an act of the heart.

reflecting on creation. You discover the invisible world through the visible world. Through the signs of God scattered all over the visible world, you discover the inner realities of life. You develop the capacity

integral and continuous part of the life of a person of deep faith in God. This way of thinking leads one to constantly think of and remember God. Every single day one discovers things that help one's faith to

against others, on the other. Actually, we should consider the good things that we possess as gifts from God, and should attribute the lack of the things that we do not yet possess to our own shortcomings. In

ourselves through study, reflection, and contemplation. A Hadith quotes the Prophet as asking God: “O God, grant me the ability to see things as they are.” A major problem with us is that we do not see