moment of freedom they had longed for. In reality, they were doing obeisance to freedom; for that was what they had made their god. Now that they had attained freedom; it was as though they had actually found

and in the words of the Quran, one is doing a “great wrong.” This paying of homage to false gods is what the Quran calls zulm. The word zulm actually means putting

death. Some have set their sights on the world, others on the hereafter. Some dwell on what meets the eye, others on what lies beyond the superficiality of human vision. Some strive to satisfy their own desires

slightest indignity. But what will their fate be in the next world when they are hungry and thirsty and there is no food to allay the pangs of hunger, and no water to slake their thirst? What will they do in the

Ray of Hopedisappear. One will only be able to express what is in one’s heart. Man will appear exactly as he was in relation to reality, rather than in the manner which he used to contrive in front of

country. The strangest and the most mysterious event of our lives is death. Everyone is anxious to know what will become of him after death. The American evangelist, Billy Graham, has written a book called

WE MUST REACT ELSE WE WOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. REACTION CHECKS THE CONTINUED MISUSE OF FREEDOM — WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THIS?The misunderstanding here is that reaction ‘checks’ the misuse of freedom

used to continue for hundreds of years leading to bloodshed and in-fighting. We should think of what options we have and should unilaterally exercise patience. I once met a person who paid me a visit

nature. Man is a sensitive animal endowed with intuition and, by his intuition, he knows what is good and what is bad. So, it is but natural that when he sees some unprincipled behaviour or

through a phase of degeneration in their later period and matters have not improved in the present day. What to do when this happens? The remedy was outlined in advance in the chapter Al-Hadid (Iron) of the

of the Muslim community have lost their fear of God and have become insensitive to their faith. So, what is the formula for their regeneration, or their reform, so that they may be brought back on to the

creature. The faithful know that it is the truth from their Lord, but those who deny the truth ask, ‘What could God mean by this parable?’ He lets many go astray through it, and guides many by it. But He

consonance with their own nature. They instantly, and without any reservations, accept the truth of what is propounded in the Quran. But there are others who are of a different, a more negative

pressures from within. It is in terms of this unique conceptual quality of man that we can conceive of what his higher purpose in life should be. The latter can only be one which does not result from the pressures

personality; one which displays him as the superior being he is. If one pauses at this stage to take note of what the Quran has to say, one will find that it gives us clear guidance in this matter. Man’s purpose

greatest blessing to a person is an open mind and a sound, receptive intellect that sees truth for what it is. Such a mind is free of complexes: it is able to form opinions in a free and unprejudiced spirit

like spiritual sustenance for such a mind, which develops and thrives by deriving nourishment from what it sees, feels and hears in the world around it. Signs of God are spread all over the universe. In