overwhelming emotions, and rush heedless into whatever first comes their way. When the result is not what they had anticipated, they fall to complaining against others, lamenting their losses and failures

Very often, it is not so much a question of adding to one’s knowledge and skills as of developing what is already there—capacities of which we are sometimes barely aware. Frequently, it is one’s initial

happen? This is a question that all of us ask. Everyone wants to know why death takes place. What is life? What is death? Why is it that people want to live a long life, but then, without their consent,

how utterly helpless a person truly is. An earthquake is a prior indication from God that tells us what is finally going to happen to every one of us one day – the Day of Judgment. It is a sort of mini

consciousness, when buildings collapse like a house of cards, when the bowels of the earth are thrown up and what is on the surface of the earth is swallowed inside – at that moment, a person realizes that, in the

brought in to explain it. While this saying had nothing to do with the biblical conception of woman, what has been said in the above hadith is a natural fact which has often been expressed in different ways

discussion, this remark of the Chief Justice is wholly baseless from the academic point of view. But what is stranger still is the fact that when we drew his attention to this by this letter, he did not care

to his tent and to the company of his wife, Umm Salmah. Seeing him look so grieved, she asked him what ailed him. The Prophet then told her of this unprecedented refusal to obey his order. Umm Salmah then

as she had suggested. He went out, sacrificed his animal and shaved his head. When the people saw what he had done, they immediately began to follow suit. 75. The animals were to be sacrificed

religion in this issue is only an exploitation of religion. It has nothing to do with the real religion—Islam. To us the solution to this problem lies in delinking this issue with religion. The inclusion of

live well. But a healthy body is not in our hands. We need all those many things that form part of what is called the ‘life support system’. We can lead a successful life only with this support system.

one rise above one’s worldly situation. It makes one concentrate on one’s goals in life. No matter what hindrances and obstacles lie on the path, one soldiers on until one reaches the final destination

the Conscience Going against one’s conscience is not very easy. It is this behaviour that creates what is called tension or stress. If you want to live with a tension free mind, listen to the voice of