effects. If your repentance is false, it would never have its impact in reforming you as a person.43.WHAT IS HONEST REPENTANCE?When a person does something wrong, he feels guilty. We make a mistake as a result

heed to one’s inner voice. The Creator has placed a special feature in human psyche— and that is what is called ‘repentance’. Repentance is a wonderful means of mercy for human beings. For those who repent

himself: Who is behind this living drama? What is the relationship between me and that superb artist? Furthermore, there is the question of death: Why does man die and what lies in the postdeath period? If you

make one feel close to Him. One should suppress feelings of anger and vengeance, demonstrating thus what the forgiveness of the Lord will be like. One should witness through one’s own tears of contrition

garden of paradise, which sprouts in this world and blossoms in the next. He experiences in this world what others will experience after death, when it is too late. People’s reaction to the various circumstances

your faith. There are two ways of doing so: accepting the revelation of the verses and acknowledging what the signs in the universe indicate. We learn from the Quran that, for a true believer, pondering upon

by pondering or reflecting on the signs scattered throughout the universe, it becomes clear that what the Quran has to say is the truth and that “God encompasses all things.” (41: 53). From the study

is that all of a sudden the dying person is deprived of the present planet earth. But what he received on the planet earth, was, in reality, not the result of his striving, but rather an unconditional

invoke the greatness of God. Fortunate are those who are able to pray in such a manner for that is what is acceptable to God. Discover the Reasons for Thankfulness If you eat tasty food and then you say

with further miracles, but he also made a very significant speech, a part of which is as follows: “What you have brought is deception. Surely God will render it vain. God does not bless the work of the

the evildoers. By His words He vindicates the truth, much as the guilty may dislike it.” (10:81-82) What Prophet Moses said at that time was in fact a proclamation of God’s eternal verdict. In the present

valid. Something that appears as white to everyone else may appear as black to someone, and no matter what proofs you provide him, he may refuse to budge from his position. This is a general phenomenon. It

read it as it is. Rather, we read it through the prism of our perspective or mindset. Consequently, what we understand is not really the thing in itself, but, rather, the thing as it has been moulded and

understand what he should make the goal of his search. By birth every human being is a seeker of Paradise, the ideal world of his dreams. A human being is the seeker, and Paradise is what he seeks. A

the fact that no matter how huge, or wonderful in configuration, what we see of them amounts to only one tenth of their enormous bulk. What lies below the surface of the ocean spreading far and beyond the

on the front page of the newspaper. But the greatest news of today is actually what we see at the universal level. What is this universal news? This universal news is that the sun which set yesterday