into ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’. The present world is man’s today while the next world is man’s tomorrow. What a man does in this present world will yield its result in the hereafter. In the hereafter a differentiation

gardens watered by running streams. Whenever they are given fruit to eat, they will say: ‘This is what we used to eat before,’ for they shall be given the like” (The Quran, 2:25). This means that the rewards

they were people who struggled on earth in the path of God. Man is being tested in this world to see what response he offers in certain given situations. It is man and man alone who is being tested in this

God-fearing means, one refrains from all the things forbidden by God in this worldly life. And he does only what God has permitted him to do. Abstaining from food and drink during the day and eating only during

food and water stresses the importance of these things as divine blessings. It reminds a person that what all one has is from God, Who is the supreme and all- powerful Being, and one day all would be taken

‘Journey of Civilization’. After a long period of many centuries, this journey entered the phase of what is called ‘Modern Civilization’. This civilization, based on modern industry, has led to the ‘Age

problems. And so, in the 21st century, human civilization has entered a blind alley, synonymous with what can be termed as ‘The End of History’. Why and how did this happen? The answer to this has much to

mechanical process. The Quranic interpretation explains itself, for God can do as He wills. He can create what He wishes without material resources. Such is not the case with the theory of evolution, which demands

their efforts towards finding an answer to this question. Yet they still have not been able to produce what Spinoza termed a ‘scientific base’ on which to form a coherent political philosophy. Altogether,

compensate for the other’s poor memory. It is good to remember here that modern research has confirmed what the Quran said—that women’s memory is weaker than that of men. Russian scientists have gone into this

nature. Now we turn to external inconsistency. External inconsistency in a literary work occurs when what it asserts is contradicted by some reality in the outside world. It is illuminating in this connection

The Quranic description of certain stages in the development of the embryo corresponds exactly to what we today know about it, and the Quran does not contain a single statement that is open to criticism

development, it looks to the naked eye like chewed flesh. The bone structure develops inside this mass in what is called the mesenchyma. The bones that are formed are covered in muscle; the word lahm applies to

man on the right lines. What man had to do was to totally associate his thinking, his feelings of love and fear with God. This is the essence of belief in God, and this is what produces every kind of noble

horror of it with his own eyes, was already a mature man of forty. He remained deeply affected by what he had seen, and in 1869-70, decided to travel to England to inquire into the reasons for the continuing

in the field of education, they persisted in political struggle. And when guidance goes unheeded, what benefit can accrue from it? Let us compare this with developments in Japan. In 1945, Japan had an

was at that time Emperor of Japan, consulted his country’s intellectuals and military officers on what their course of action should now be. The majority of them were of the view that, although their air

the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable.’ After initial differences, the entire nation heeded the guidance of Hirohito. According