of Mr. A while he was still alive, but today he is no longer in this world. Mr. B, Mr. C, Mr. D, Mr. E,—all of them have departed this life. In this way, I kept remembering one by one all those who had known

number. There were no brick houses, no brick mosques, there was no means of even lighting up the Masjid-e-Nabavi (the Prophet’s mosque). It was as late as the ninth year of Hijra that the Prophet’s mosque was

is reflected very clearly in the teachings of the Sufis. The Sufis believed in what is called sulh-e kul or peace with all.  Peace with all is a fundamental Islamic teaching. Why? This is because dawah

demonstrators’ egotism, or nafs-e ammara. And then things would have gone totally against him. But by using wisdom and reasonableness instead of a gun, he awakened their conscience, or nafs-e lawwama. And when the

Emperor Akbar attempted to achieve harmony by state enforcement of his newly formed religion, ‘Din-e-Ilahi’; Dr. Bhagwan Das spent the best part of his life producing a one-thousand page book titled Essential

Sulh-e-Hudaybiyya, such a large number of people entered the fold of Islam as had never before been witnessed. (Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah, vol. 4, p. 170) This great increase in terms of numbers made Islam

the Prophet held himself aloof from the battle. People approached him and, quoting the verse of qital-e-fitna, asked him why he was not joining in the battle. Abdullah ibn Umar replied that ‘fitna’ as mentioned

When I think about it, I feel that they received this unique reward because of their dua with ism-e-azam. I feel as if they must have prayed in these words with tears welling up in their eyes in solitude:

evolution was a fact and not a mere supposition set forth for the purpose of scientific research. A. E. Mander writes: The theory of organic evolution that the species and varieties of living things have

attaches great importance to giving concessions to the people in the Quran (9:60). This is called talif-e-qalb (softening of the heart). A study of the life of the Prophet of Islam tells us that softening of