who turns off at every bye-lane will be lost on the way. His path will never lead him towards God. What this deviation means is that he has become subservient to his desires attaching importance to immediate

divine knowledge is bound to be wrong. It is on the point of right thinking that man is being tested. What man has to do is break out of the mental framework, which has been acquired under the influence of

Quran then gave a challenge to these sceptics, asking them to produce “a scripture similar to it,” if what they said were true. (52:34) It declared, moreover, in no uncertain terms that, even if all the human

today. This is undoubtedly a matter of great wisdom, as it is possible that you may receive tomorrow what you have not received today.

Meet your Lord with a clean record A certain individual once wrote to Abdullah ibn Umar to ask him what true knowledge was. The latter replied that there was more to true knowledge than could be written

considered mysterious for more than a thousand years. It was not clear as to who these people would be and what role they were to play in the future.

To meet the exigencies of the test, a person has been given freedom in his life in this world. Here what an individual receives is not his rights: it is only a test paper. Every situation is a test paper

useful for mankind, remain intact. These are the events of nature through which God shows symbolically what principles He has laid down for success or failure in life. One principle is that, in this world,

ways so that he may leave off his wrongdoing. There are such people who look at others only to see what they can gain from them. Such people are not desirable in God’s eyes. They are misfits on the map

THE LAWS OF NATUREWhat we can achieve through the patience and peace, we cannot achieve by violence. What we can achieve gradually, we cannot achieve at one fell swoop. Success is to live in accordance with