and ‘them’. Every religious community claims to be the chosen people of God. This pandemic proved that all are equal before God. The authors Swami Agnivesh and Valson Thampu made an excellent point in

virus has undermined every aspect of priest-driven religiosity. (…). 'Post'-COVID, religion must be God-centered and priest-free, unburdened with places of worship. Worship, free from rituals, dogmas, deception

widen the canvas of God-realization. SOI reminds us to be grateful for the amazing planet Earth with its life-support system. SOI leads one on the journey of the realization of God, our Supreme Benefactor

that his conviction in God has weakened or has even been forgotten. But then he receives some kind of shock in his life, physically or mentally. This serves as a reminder of God, after which he re-discovers

re-discovers his Lord. His faith is restored. God created man with great intellect; man is able, therefore, to discover God through ratiocination, through the study of books or through the observation of nature

nature. Man is fully competent to discover God by using his capacity to think. But it is also a fact that when a person finds himself in conditions of comfort and luxury, and when he enjoys every convenience

Closeness to God in Every SituationAccording to one of the traditions of the Prophet of Islam, “God offered to turn the whole valley of Makkah into gold for me. I said, ‘No, O My Lord! I rather want that

one. But actually, no death is untimely. All deaths happen at just the right time, at the time that God has fixed for them. A so-called ‘untimely’ death can be more properly called as a ‘reminder death’

came to know of the realities of life, he remembered that incident in his youth and in his prayers to God he said that had he killed himself by committing suicide, today he would have found himself in the

the best blessing to mankind from God, because it shows man the path to ultimate success. The guidance given in the Quran is the best blessing to mankind from God, because it shows man the path to ultimate

also recited during the Tarawih1 prayer. This month has been made special so that the blessings of God may be counted even more. When the Quran is read during the month of its revelation, it reminds us

Lord, save me from Hell, and let me enter Paradise'. The Quran is a reward to His servants from God. And fasting is acknowledgment of the reward. In this way the Quran becomes a guiding force in man’s

servants from God. And fasting is an acknowledgment of the reward. Through fasting man makes himself worthy of being thankful to God. He obeys the command of God and thus revels in the supremacy of God. Having

extempore. At that time, all of a sudden I started getting ideas about what to say. I just remembered God and, in a frenzied manner, I started speaking. I began my speech with these words: There are many stories

these incidents, or stories is that God commanded Moses to go to the court of the tyrant king of Egypt and call upon him to accept monotheism. The Prophet Moses said to God, “My breast is constricted and my

my tongue is not fluent.” (The Quran, 26:13) Then by the grace of God Almighty, he prayed, “My Lord, open up my heart and make my task easy for me, loosen the knot in my tongue, so that they may understand

extempore. At that time, all of a sudden I started getting ideas about what to say. I just remembered God and, in a frenzied manner, I started speaking. I began my speech with these words: There are many stories

these incidents, or stories is that God commanded Moses to go to the court of the tyrant king of Egypt and call upon him to accept monotheism. The Prophet Moses said to God, “My breast is constricted and my

my tongue is not fluent.” (The Quran, 26:13) Then by the grace of God Almighty, he prayed, “My Lord, open up my heart and make my task easy for me, loosen the knot in my tongue, so that they may understand