manner which is fully in consonance with all laws and international customs? Let us also look at what the Indian Penal Code has to say on the subject of self-defense. Article 96, which deals with fundamental

or communities to slaughter those who are of a different faith? All that Article 96 does is uphold what is generally considered to be a human right. Religious freedom is a separate issue and is dealt with

matters realistically and make new life plans. Forgetting what one has lost, one is able to carry on with one’s purpose in life on the basis of what one still has. One acts with wisdom, not hopelessness,

world, after which he would be taken to the next world, which comes after death. What is the present world? And what is the next world? Paradise is an eternal world, while this present world is ephemeral

helplessness. That was the moment to crush them completely. But this was not the way of the Prophet Muhammad. What other, lesser men would do in such a situation is common knowledge, but the Prophet did not avenge

man will come forward in his true colours: We may prepare our horror, and cry shame beforehand. “But what is this? Is there no blood in the streets? Where are the bodies of the thousands that have been butchered

The best we can do is strive to avoid bringing down upon ourselves untold and everlasting agony. What, then, is mankind waiting for? Isn’t death’s inevitability enough to jolt people out of their moral

most agonizing punishment for your contumacy. Ponder over this. Is not this something to be feared? What a day the Day of Judgement will be! The heavens and the earth will be turned upside down, and a new

‘What we pay our employees or workers is the payment for their work. We won’t get any divine reward for this payment. They have served us, and we have compensated them. What divine reward can we get from

they near the close of the twentieth century the American intellectual class are acknowledging that what they thought of as the ladder of progress, at the beginning of the 20th century, has turned out to

life adopted by her of necessity involves her bearing the burdens of both the home and the workplace. What kind of progress is it which culminates in destruction? How strange is this freedom which, in practice

to a rib and should be treated with due consideration.” There is another tradition which explains what this means. “A woman is like a rib,” said the Prophet, “if you try to straighten it, it will break

Than this world dreams of, wherefore, let thy voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they

of a true believer.This prayer found expression in prophetic words from the lips of the Prophet of Islam when he breathed his last: ‘My Lord, the Noblest Companion.’ (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 4463)Both

difficult to enumerate them. It is science alone which has led man to the age of modern civilization. What is the reason for this difference? The reason may be traced to the fact that science recognized the