divine bounty and present your gratefulness to God. This is acknowledgement and acknowledgement is what makes you a deserving of receiving further bounties. This is mentioned in the chapter Ibrahim (Abraham)

during his prayer. These verses tell him about the dos and don’ts of his daily life. They tell him what the secret of success is and how one can obtain salvation in the world hereafter. This means that

Al-Sajdah (Prostration) of the Quran in these words: No soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did. (32:17) The only condition to find an honourable seat

peace-making process which was expressed by Jesus Christ in these words: “Give to Caesar what is due to Caesar and give to God what is due to God.” (Luke, 20:25) This means that, by avoiding a head-on clash with

WHAT IS PARADISE?The first category of people of Paradise will be of those sincere people who will enjoy the comfortable life of Paradise. The second category will be of those who are overwhelmed by the

the other hand, another kind of person would observe this luxury car and then would fall to thinking what a superb engineering mind it would take to design such a splendid car and then give it practical shape

This condition is so common that there are very few exceptions to it. What is the reason for this? It is actually caused by what could be called homesickness. As is well known, when man was created, he

proof that the process of tazkiyah is at work. There is no tazkiyah without prayer, and vice versa. What is prayer? Prayer is an expression in words of the feeling which is produced after a helpless man

expectations of My servant, so he ought to have good expectations about Me.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 16016) What is this hope or expectation? It relates in actual fact to man’s discovering certain attributes of

is that man tends to suppose that what happens in this world will also happen in the same way in the hereafter. He thinks that regarding the consequences of mistakes what ensues in this world will also ensue

out of differences. Then what to do? The cow is the answer. God has created a model in the form of the cow. We have to adopt cow culture, we have to develop in our personality what may be called the capacity

creative thinking. Doing something out of habit is the same as an animal’s doing things by instinct. What is instinct for an animal is habit for human beings. Doing something as a result of conscious planning

Such a person cannot take a new decision in life. He will live as a prisoner of his habits, although what is right is for him to have a living mind. Man should do everything as a result of conscious planning

murder ‘Ammar’s mother. Relating this incident, this is what the Prophet’s biographer, Ibn Hisham, writes: When the Prophet passed them by, from what I have heard, he would say to them: “Be patient, family