family circle will certainly fail to live a good life in society. Adjustment, a principle of life, is what makes all social life run smoothly. If you enter social life without first having learned to make

distance of an object from us. Yet what is perceived by the eye is nothing more than an object of a certain size and a certain shade of colour.’ Mill further remarks, ‘It is too much even to say, “I saw

pieces are missing. When we have fitted together all the pieces available (the known facts), we can see what the missing pieces must be like to enable them to fit into the gaps’ (p.123). On the basis of this

is being put to the test in this world. His choice of a God-centred, or a godless religion will be what determines his fate in the life after death. Men are led astray by the fact that it is quite possible

materially successful in this world; one may ignore God, and yet have honour and glory in this life. What they do not see is that none of this means anything at all in the life after death. Worldly successes

defeat, but also in victory. In the 17th century AD when the whole world was worshipping nature, Islam taught Muslims the lesson of conquering it. The Muslims of the initial period were profoundly moved

purification. This purification is brought about by one’s own reflection and introspection. In that way, what we are going to experience in the society of Paradise is being experienced again and again in this

subject, the angels are preparing a person’s record of his relations and his dealings with others, and what kind of response he has given in different situations, heavenly or non-heavenly, spiritual or non-spiritual

there is no great difference between comfort and deprivation. What one gains from experiences of material pleasure is of far less value than what one gains from experiences of deprivation. The tears of pain