psychology in the person. It means that he expects from other than God, when the right thing is for everyone to adopt the principle of ‘In God we trust’.  Another healthy principle is that if someone gives

be unwanted, and keeps praying to God to help him. This is a wrong thing to do. The right way is that a person should accept the opportunity he gets as coming from God. In this way, he will develop the

more favours on you; […] (14: 7) A person praying, ‘O God, give me sunshine’, even as the sun shines, goes against the law of nature. If you pray, ‘O God, give me oxygen’, when there is fresh air all around

people who pay heed. Be steadfast; for surely, God does not let the wages of the righteous be wasted. (11:114-115) When you have finished the prayer, remember God while standing, and sitting, and lying on your

declared to God that, given the opportunity he will lead all the children of Adam astray. At that time he challenged God saying: Most of them, You will not find grateful. THE QURAN 7: 17 God has bestowed

was a Jinn (THE QURAN 18: 50). God had bestowed many favours to the Jinns. It was God who created them and granted them an existence. They were given freedom of choice. God gave them extraordinary powers

long life. He granted them all that they needed to live in God's world. In spite of all these gifts of God, why did Satan not show gratitude to God? The reason for this is that the temperament of complaining

undertaken to perform the pilgrimage means a sacrifice of time and money, and the animal offered to God symbolizes the sacrifice of life. The rites of Sa‘i (movement between the two hillocks) and Tawaf (circumambulating

himself to the one and only God. What is that divine mission in the course of which the believer must offer all these sacrifices? It is, in effect, to proclaim the glory of God on earth: “And when you have

have fulfilled your sacred duties, remember God as you remembered your forefathers or with deeper reverence” (2:200). The Prophet said: “The acts of Rami Jamar (throwing of stones at the devil) and the

felt when a man is deprived of whatever he had a desire in his heart to achieve. When a man remembers God and his relations with Him are established on a spiritual level, this amounts to complete fulfillment

experience, which is expressed in this verse as ‘comfort of the heart.’ Do not covet the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on some of you than on others. AL-NISA’, 4:32

despite being in a foreign country and meeting so many different delegates that he often remembered God. While this visit of the Maulana’s to Switzerland was way back in 2002, the views on peace which he

The Prophet as a ModelThe Prophet of Islam not only presented God’s religion theoretically, but also diligently followed it in practice. Therefore, he is not only one who has told us what to do, but is

example of what he preached: ‘You have indeed in the Prophet of God a good example for those of you who look to God and the Last Day, and remember God always’ (The Quran, 33:21) This verse was revealed in the

campaigns of Ahzab, but in every respect, the Prophet’s life serves as the best example for the believer. God’s true servant is one who adopts

The Prophet as a ModelThe Prophet of Islam not only presented God’s religion theoretically, but also diligently followed it in practice. Therefore, he is not only one who has told us what to do, but is

example of what he preached: ‘You have indeed in the Prophet of God a good example for those of you who look to God and the Last Day, and remember God always’ (The Quran, 33:21) This verse was revealed in the

campaigns of Ahzab, but in every respect, the Prophet’s life serves as the best example for the believer. God’s true servant is one who adopts