is under the watchful eyes of God, and that he will be accountable for its fulfillment in the court of God. This compels him to be highly responsible as regards his promises. Whenever he gives his word

has been created by a higher being, who is called ‘God’ in religion. Control Over the Universe This is the first verse of the Quran: “Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds.” (1:2). These are, in actual

Greed for more and more distracted you [from God] till you reached the grave. But you will soon come to know. But you will soon come to know. Indeed, were you to know the truth with certainty, you would

soon be taken away from all that they have built around themselves. They will then be standing before God to account for their deeds.

story is referred to in chapter fourteen. When the Prophet Abraham settled there, he said a prayer to God Almighty, which is recorded in the chapter Ibrahim (Abraham) of the Quran: O Lord! I have settled some

say that this prayer was not a mysterious prayer. It was the invocation of a natural law, that is, God created the present world with great potential and then He gave man the capacity to turn this potential

impulse from Satan provokes you, seek refuge with God; He is all-hearing, and all-knowing. When any evil suggestion from Satan touches those who fear God, they are instantly alerted and become watchful;

considered how God sets forth a parable of a good word (being) like a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches are in the sky, it yields its fruit each season with its Lord’s permission—God makes such

other than God may work but, in the Hereafter, monotheism alone will be of any avail. In this world making one’s own self one’s sole concern is advantageous but, in the Hereafter, it is making God one’s sole

in order that the event could take place within the bounds of cause and effect, as is the way of God. In accordance with this scheme, Abraham was commanded to leave the civilized territory of Iraq for

natural abilities were fully preserved. Abraham had prayed for the emergence of a people submissive to God, and this was a land ideally suited for the development of such a people: Lord, make us submissive

“We have left our people behind. No nation is torn by hostility and infighting as they are. Perhaps God will unite them through you. We will return to them and tell them about the religion we have accepted

subdue their enemies. This meant that they had no time to give consideration to spiritual matters. God, and life after death, appeared to them to be extraneous issues, designed to divert them from their

by the Prophet and his Companions was essentially a spiritual one, solidly based on belief in one God and the hereafter. Yet there were far- reaching worldly repercussions as well. The preaching of true

it had been in the past. Major obstacles which had stood in the path of one who called mankind to God were submerged in a wave of great social change. When the surah of the Quran entitled “Repentance”