confrontational situation, which ended with Cain killing Abel. Citing this incident as a bad precedent, God made the following revelation: “That was why we laid it down for the children of Israel that whoever

not been revealed for any other crime in the Quran. This shows that the gravest crime in the eyes of God is one man taking the life of another. The only exception in this matter is for a court or other authorized

about an environment free from violence and aggression in this world? The answer is only one---the God-fearing have to bear the responsibility of exercising patience unilaterally: even if they are provoked

certain orchard, who vowed to harvest all its fruits the next morning, without saying, ‘If it be God’s will.’ A calamity from your Lord befell the orchard as they slept. And by morning it lay as if it

are utterly ruined!’ The more upright of the two said, ‘Did I not bid you to glorify God?’ They said, ‘Glory be to God, our Lord. We have surely done wrong.’ Then they began to heap reproaches on each other

A man thus addressed the Prophet: ‘O Messenger of God, who rightfully deserves the best treatment from me?’ ‘Your mother,’ the Prophet said. ‘Then who?’ the man asked again. ‘Your mother,’ replied the

may dislike a thing which God has meant for your own good.’ (Quran, 4:19). This teaching means that even if outwardly unpleasant, a wife should not cause aversion, because God has not made anyone imperfect

out before us the sublime nature of His works. The Quran bears verbal witness to the sovereignty of God. It describes, with great force and clarity, the great, hidden, determinative force at work throughout

wordpictures which bring a hitherto unseen world before our very eyes. The Holy Book not only tells us that God exists, but also paints an incredibly vivid picture of the Being who sustains and directs the Universe

it is only through our attachment to God that human beings can retain their hold on the cord that binds each to each. The Quran explains that it is this One God alone who sustains us throughout our lives

from them here. So far as fulfilment is concerned it can be granted only to the true believers who God will find eligible for inhabiting eternal Paradise in the Hereafter. It is very strange that in this

world so that he can be held eligible for entry into the enteral world of Paradise in the Hereafter by God. This is the key for human success in the next world. Any shortcoming in this matter will lead to his

illusory enjoyment. (3:185) According to these verses, death is a decision of God. Life comes into being through a decision of God, and death also happens in the same way. The fact is that no death is really

aspirations as any father might have, but this in no way diminished his trust in God. He held fast to it and in his sorrow exclaimed, “By God! Oh Ibrahim, I am sad at your death. Tears are falling from my eyes and

Trumpet shall be blown and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth shall swoom, save whom God wills. Then it shall be blown a second time and they will stand and look around them. The earth will

upon you! Well you have done. Enter Paradise and dwell therein forever.” They will say: “Praise be to God, Who has been true to His promise to us and has made us inherit the land, that we may dwell wherever