thankful that you have a healthy body. You can eat and drink and walk. All this is a blessing from God. If God wants, He can take away these blessings, and then you will have nothing.” Most people are blessed

Rarely do they recognize 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

reaching completion in Madinah. The guidance given in the Quran is the best blessing to humankind from God, because it shows man the path to ultimate success. It tells man how to conduct himself so that in

its dictates, he bathes in the ocean of its message cleansing his soul. The Quran is a reward from God to His servants. And fasting is acknowledgement of the reward. The main aim of fasting is to lessen

helplessness as he is deprived of his basic needs of food and water, the fasting person connects to God with sincere prayer. The practice of fasting is also largely aimed at saving a person from distractions

and water. He requires these things continuously throughout his entire life. For man’s requirements God has made perfect arrangements. On the one hand, He has provided water in abundance on the earth, on

eats and drinks, he is overwhelmed with the feeling of how great that God is who has made such splendid provision for him. If God had not done so, he would have suffered the pangs of hunger and thirst

of God’s bounties and he calls out: Praise be to God for all of His abundant provisions! On receiving bodily sustenance the believer is reminded of the spiritual sustenance provided for him by God. Through

were 100% wrong. This will awaken the feeling of repentance in you. You will shudder in the fear of God and will turn to Him in prayer and seek His forgiveness. There is nothing mysterious about tazkiyah

anger and forgive their fellow men. God loves the charitable. And who, if they commit evil or wrong their souls, remember God and seek forgiveness for their sins—who but God forgives sins—and do not knowingly

which you have been given is but the fleeting comfort of this life. For better and more enduring is God’s reward to those who believe and put their trust in Him; who avoid gross sins and indecencies and,

blessing bestowed on you by God, so you should partake of it.’” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 23142) Fasting gives a strong powerful lesson that you have to abstain from all the things God has forbidden you, however

reminder that when God gives us a difficult command, He also grants some concessions along with it. Together with the command of fasting, God gives the concession of Sehri. Any commandment of God, however difficult

conducted with a new frame of mind. The one who fasts now performs prayers, studies the Quran, remembers God, and deals with people during the course of the day. These routine activities are performed with a

IN THE GARDENS OF PARADISEhas in this world is all God’s blessing. For these blessings one has to acknowledge the Giver from his heart and without doubt this is the greatest form of worship for man. IN

question was asked, ‘What are the gardens of Paradise?’ To this Prophet Muhammad replied, “Remembering God together.’” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 3510) In this tradition, the word ‘Halaquz-zikr’, that

earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are signs for men of sense; those that remember God when standing, sitting, and lying down, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying):

awareness of God’s creation plan, do not understand why this is prevalent. So, they continue to react negatively to situations and by giving such a response, prove themselves— in the eyes of God—to be failures

this world of God. By grasping fresh opportunities and utilizing them one can arise again. All one has to do is go about one’s task in an intelligent manner, and never give up trying. God has created this

people to lead them on to greater heights. This means that no one need lose heart in this world of God. However uncompromising circumstances may seem, they contain, somewhere or another, the possibility