tells us that after the people of Paradise are ushered into Paradise, they will say: “Praise be to God who has taken away all sorrow from us” (35:34). In this worldly life everyone passes through the stages

exclaims: “O God, you have freed me from sorrow in this world, similarly I pray to You to relieve me from sorrow in the Hereafter.” One who can utter these words with true feeling, may, God willing, earn

people or in the eyes of God. An act is worthy of esteem only when it is pure in intention. Any act done without the right intention is impure in nature. CONCEPT OF HEREAFTER God created man as an eternal

the Hereafter is to reap its reward. Human beings have been created as eternal creatures. However, God has divided a person’s lifespan into two parts. A very small part of his lifespan has been destined

rich merchants, into the fold of Islam. In the second stage the Prophet received the command from God to spread the message publicly. There was one main reason for the Quraysh to oppose the Prophet, and

idols of the neighbouring tribes and nations. Since Islam believed in one God, the Quraysh feared that once the concept of one God became popular, the tribes would stop visiting the Kabah to pay homage to

to find the true God anywhere but in the Quran, so is it impossible that, after finding God, any book other than the Quran should be more precious to him. For the Quran is the book of God. It is the means

beings to realize God. Now, it has become possible for any man to apprehend the evidence of the Creator through direct study and observation of creation. Through this scientific revolution, the divine

achievement of a high degree of divine realization. A significant number of God’s servants have achieved the realization of God through these signs. However, evil forces are always at work in this world

born in this next stage of human history whose ideas were responsible for taking people away from God- realization. The Prophet forewarned this when he stated that a great deceiver would be born in later

spiritual world which are palpably true and need no further explanation. The attributes and powers of God as are given above in the Ayat al-Kursi are just such examples. The statement made in this verse needs

their strength and diminish their glory. First Favour, Second Favour Addressing the Prophet Moses, God says: “Indeed, We showed Our favour to you before also.” (Quran: 20:37) The background of this verse

child born into an Israelite home. Moses would have met the same fate, if God had not saved him by divine intervention. This was God’s first favour to Moses. Later when

for entry into Paradise is that man should prove that he is eligible for it based on his qualities. God has made the present world for this purpose. It serves as a selection ground. The conditions of this

made so that everything is an examination paper for man. Here, at every moment, man is being tested. God is preparing a record of every person’s word and deed here. Based on this record, it will be decided

freedom is not a reward. Instead, it is for a test. God is watching how man uses his freedom. The people who use their freedom rightly, under God’s creation plan, will be selected to be settled in

is an exceptional phenomenon. The universe is an exception that rebuts the view of the deniers of God. If the universe were only the result of an accident, it would be repeatable through another such ‘accident’

person, the existence of God is as certain as his existence. Every person accepts their existence. Through the same evidence and proof, he will also have to accept the existence of God. To accept one’s existence

existence and not to accept God’s existence is

that there is no god but the one God and that Muhammad e is God’s Messenger; the regular saying of prayers (salat); alms-giving (zakat); performing a pilgrimage to the Kabah, the House of God in Makkah (hajj);