Undoubtedly, what Sayyed Rashid Rida suggested was proper, but not a single Indian Muslim religious scholar appeared to consider this suggestion worthy of attention. Besides Sayyed Rashid Rida, there were

attempt to discuss the points raised by Sayyed Rashid Rida seriously. Most of the Ulama only knew what they deeply revered as the practice of their predecessors or ‘elders’. Because the opinions of people

such an assertion is not correct, for what the Arabs had received from Greek philosophers was not experimental knowledge but theoretical argument. In other words, what they received from the Greeks was not

of mind. To eradicate corruption it requires individuals who are incorruptible and, undoubtedly, what produces such individuals is spirituality. There is a saying that violence begins from the mind. This

alter people’s thinking, we can safely say that we shall have eradicated corruption by at least 50%. What best changes the heart and mind is spirituality: it enlightens the inner self. When an aeroplane takes

Realization is a tempestuous experience. One achieves such realization through personal discovery. What is achieved through the utterance of ritual formulae may induce some kind of psychological state but

Himself in a new state every day” (55:29) cannot be had by blindly following any particular set course. What is called creative thinking in secular terms is, in religious terms, called ijtihadi or creative thinking

you is of your own doing (42:30) This means that whenever you have a complaint against somebody, what you should immediately do is to turn the direction of the complaint towards yourself. You should search

the present set-up of the universe, which periodically result in minor calamities, are indicative of what is going to happen on a large scale, at some time in the future. The earthquake is the terrestrial

shoals of fish washed up on the sea coast, man realizes his utter helplessness in the face of nature. What is most tragic about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is the fact that no one can predict when or

destruction, which are present in the universe in embryonic forms, will one day assume gigantic proportions. What is latent today will certainly manifest itself tomorrow, and the coming of the day of resurrection

Over the last 1300 years there have appeared on the scene immumerable enemies of the Quran and Islam who could easily have prepared a book like the Quran in Arabic in answer to this challenge, and indeed

was an old woman, she once met ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, who had by that time become the Caliph of the Islamic Empire. ‘Umar greeted her and she returned his greeting. Then she said: “O ‘Umar, there was a time