conqueror and governor of Egypt) he asked Mustaurid: ‘What is the nature of these traditions you are narrating?’ Mustaurid replied: ‘I narrate only what I have heard from the Prophet.’ Amr ibn al-As said:

acceptable formula for establishing peace has yet to be arrived at. The basic question is: peace for what? Or what is the criterion of peace? Pacifists generally maintain that peace must include social justice

barbaric courseThe evil of terrorism has come to be a present-day affliction. It is widely condemned, but what terrorism is has not yet been clearly defined. After a great deal of thought on this subject, I have

militancy, for armed movements of this sort run counter to accepted national and international principles. What is known as terrorism in present times is the result of armed action by NGO’S. Moreover, war can be

will admit them into the garden He has already made known to them.” (47:6) This verse tells us that what it takes to be deserving of Paradise is its realization in this world itself. In the present world

introduction to Paradise: a natural introduction and a cultural introduction. A natural introduction means what a man realizes by his observation of natural scenes. Scenes of nature provide man with an introduction

any given event, so that an appropriate course of action may be taken. An acute sense of what is significant and what is not is essential, for without it, man can never experience spirituality. To train oneself

leads us to believe that in nature there is unity of purpose. This leads us further to believe in what may be called the oneness of God and the oneness of man. This phenomenon of nature gives us the right

intellectually that have already been physically absorbed by our stomach. Everyone talks of spirituality. But what is spirituality? Spirituality is not anything mysterious. Spirituality can be arrived at through contemplation

ahead, even if that results in his journey coming to an abrupt end once and for all. This is precisely what has happened in Kashmir. I turned to my companions and said, ‘This is a message from Nature to you

life you face a hurdle, you should not seek to hurl yourself against it to carry on ahead. Rather, what you must do is carefully avoid the hurdle and continue with your journey. This is the secret of success

what its advocates call ‘the problem of evil.’ They claim that there are such evils in the universe as make it impossible to believe that it was fashioned by a master designer. It has been argued, in this

houses and factories would collapse, water would not remain on the earth, and so on. In actual fact, what some people may regard as a flaw in the natural system is actually evidence of its harmony and equilibrium

that it is always able to have sunlight. The Quran has likened the believer to a tree. This shows what qualities the believer should have. In the believer all those qualities exist at the human level which

which exist at the material level in the tree. A believer has to consciously do of his own free will what the tree is doing while governed by nature. The believer, of his own free will, has to create a green

it was as worth adopting for the Muslims as it was for the Christians. The question arises as to what kind of “help” Christ had asked his followers to give. We find the answer in the traditions. Ibn Hisham

disciples of Christ differ from their Prophet?’ The Prophet replied: ‘Christ invited the disciples to what I have invited you. So those who were sent to nearby places, happily accepted it, but those who were