us our sins and remove from us our bad deeds and make us die with the virtuous. Our Lord! Grant us what You have promised to us through Your messengers, and do not humiliate us on the Day of Resurrection

deeds thus became a realistic example of how God’s servants should conduct themselves on earth and what path they must opt for to avert God’s displeasure and earn God’s blessings.

for worldly ends “A learned man is punished by having his heart to die,” said Hasan al-Basri. Asked what was meant by the dying of the heart, he replied that it came from seeking the world through actions

deeds thus became a realistic example of how God’s servants should conduct themselves on earth and what path they must opt for to avert God’s displeasure and earn God’s blessings.

Quran that we must turn. If we want to know how things came into existence, how they are sustained and what their future will be, it is the Quran alone which will tell us. In so doing, it will acquaint us with

to God, of worshipping none other than God as a result of this sincere feeling of gratefulness is what is called a God-oriented life in the true sense. Honour and success in the Hereafter await those who

this is not the story of Newton alone. It is nature’s story, too. This story tells us that no matter what experiences we go through—even seemingly negative ones—there is always a positive aspect or plus point

of ‘being the witnesses against mankind’ has now been given to the followers of the last Prophet. What is meant by ‘concealing’ in the verse of the Quran mentioned above is not concealing it from the Jews

such deeds to their credit attain to the status of greatness and honour in the eyes of the people. What happens in the Hereafter will be totally different. There, only a principled life will carry any weight

someone and he becomes angry. Then what he should do is extinguish the fire of anger, rather than stoke it to the point where even he is burnt in this fire. The successful person is one who does not become