benefits, also contributes to the beauty of the world. From this straightforward example we can see how God has placed unpleasant things alongside the pleasant things of life. Just as the rose bush, along with

thorns, so also does life contain an amalgam of both pleasing and displeasing objects. This is the way God has created the world. There is nothing for us to do but to fit in with this order of nature that He

fashions his own history; in truth, it is God who fashions human history in accordance with His own will. It is not people or events who control history, it is God. History may take place before our eyes

death should be: “When the time to depart from the people of this world comes, I want to be near to God Almighty.When I have to leave the company of human beings, I want to be blessed with the company of

let me not be left all alone but let me find the blessing of a nobler assembly in the company of God. Let my journey of death become a journey from a lower to a higher level of being.” This prayer is

PRICE OF PARADISEWhen a man attains realization of God, discovers the realities of divine creation, this spontaneously brings words of acknowledgement of God to his lips. This will make him deserving of Paradise

HEREAFTERThe Creator has created the present world only for action. Happiness and comfort are only for God-fearing men and women, in the Hereafter. Charlie Chaplin the famous British film star (1889-1977)

created the present world only for action. Happiness and comfort are only and only in the Hereafter for God-fearing men and women.

for material success in this world, while others lead God-fearing lives, make the Hereafter their goal and strive to build their own personality. God- oriented personalities are destined to achieve an eternal

interview is titled “My dreams have never got fulfilled.” The interviewer asked Lata Mangeshkar if God were to ask her what would be her greatest desire at this stage of her life, what her reply would be

and important reality. It is that what man wants to find in the pre-death period, has been placed by God in the post-death period. In such a case the greatest wisdom lies in man making himself deserving of

without inflicting any punishment on him.6 Those who put absolute trust in God do not fear anything or anyone. The faith that God, a Live and All- Powerful Being, is always there to help you, makes you bold

Prophet Muhammad had a dream in Madinah. In it he saw himself and his companions visiting the House of God in Makkah. His companions were very pleased to hear this, for it meant that, after a lapse of six years

their journey had reached the Quraysh. Indignant at the idea of the Muslims visiting the House of God, they had amassed an army, and

to his people, this is what he had to say to them: Leave this fellow to carry on with his work for, God knows, he is never going to give it up. Do not prevent him from preaching to the Arabs. If he wins

reason, and should be allowed to carry on. The very spectacle of 1400 Muslims displaying their faith in God also made a deep impact on the Quraysh. When one