other sciences should come about as a matter of worldly necessity. Without a knowledge of religion, what must be done in this world to earn an everlasting reward, will constantly elude one’s understanding

scholar, Ian Nash, who spent eleven years in Japan making a detailed study of the language and nation, what shook the Japanese most profoundly was not upheavals in politics, but the great Kanto earthquake,

closer together, but the task of bringing unity into the internal world has yet to be accomplished. What is spiritual unity? Let us take a very simple example. When you live in a crowded settlement, the

sense of universality prevails. We have all had this experience at one time or another. It shows us what spiritual unity is. It is, in fact, the raising of one’s existence to a higher plane. The moment you

the ‘life-after-death’ theory is. Facts are simply crying out that life does not consist merely of what can be seen of the human body prior to death. There must also be a life after death. If the human

nothing but the briefest of interludes in our never- ending lifespanThe Other WorldThink for a moment what this other world must be like. God’s Prophet has made it known to mankind that heaven and hell both

of attempting to put a stop to the act of criticism and disagreement itself. This is the demand of Islam as well as the demand of nature. The attribute of a true believer described in the hadith is: ‘whenever

the al-Aqsa Mosque. Worship should no longer be linked with the question of political power. The Islamic principle of Al-fasl bayn al-Qaziyatayn (to separate two matters from one another) is not just for

lowest of the low, except for those who believe and do good deeds—theirs shall be an unending reward! What then after this, can make you deny the Last Judgement? Is not God the greatest of the judges? (THE

she talks about her dissatisfaction, her search for something to comfort her heart and how she found what she was searching for in the following words of the Bible: The Lord is my light and my salvation—

what have kept some parts of the country free from inter-communal violence, and if replicated elsewhere, they can help put an end to such violence there, too. In this regard, one must also add that Muslims

riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood

better than you. The weak among you to me, will be the strongest until I have ensured that they receive what is rightfully theirs. The strong among you I will look upon as the weakest, until I have made sure