The First Public Call to IslamAccording to Arab custom, people used to ascend a hill when they had to announce some important news. So the Prophet, with his all-important tidings, climbed up on a hillock

what they are doing. Given this state of affairs, there is only one thing in this world which appears to be purposeless and that is that all men and women are born with beautiful desires. When everything

will be compelled to taste the fruits of their evil deeds for all eternity. The Reality of Paradise What is Paradise? Paradise is the ultimate answer to the human quest. Man finds himself in a world where

What is Maarifah?What is maarifah? Literally, maarifah means realization. In religious terms, maarifah means man’s realization of God, his Creator. He awakens in him the profound consciousness of the reality

reported as saying, “There are many who fast and receive nothing in return, but hunger and thirst”. What is the difference between one fast and another, while in appearance both are alike? In actual fact

behaviour throughout his life. In this way, through fasting, one experiences what it is like to be in need. One finds out what hunger and thirst are like. The well-off who, in normal circumstances, are never

conscious of the fact that he is thinking But animals and men surely represent a higher form of life. In what way does man excel animals? Many theories have been advanced in answer to this question over the ages

pressures from within. It is from this unique capacity of man to conceptualize that we can conceive of what his higher purpose in life should be: one which in no way results from the pressures of desire or

which represents him as the superior being that 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

Quran during his prayer. These verses tell him about the do's and don’ts of daily life. They tell him what the secret of success is and how one can obtain salvation in the world Hereafter.  It means that worship

riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood

Institute, 101, 102 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 14 World War 11, 41, 57 Yasir, 157 Young, Lynn, 63 Yusuf Islam, 47 Zaibun Nisa, 164, 170 Zeus, 21 zihar, 152, 230 Zubayr, 158, 159, 189 Zurich, 116