with unbelievers not to ‘revile (the idols) which they invoke besides God, lest in their ignorance they should spitefully revile God.’ This principle formulated by Islam is best described not as religious

in great grief and sorrow that he was visited by the angel of the mountains at God’s command. He said to the Prophet, “God has heard what your people had said to you. I am the angel of the mount. If you

I am still hopeful that there will arise people among their following generations who will worship God without associating anything with Him.” (As-Sirah an-Nabawiyya li Ibn Kathir vol. II, p. 153). It

people feel secure as regards their lives and property (At-Tirmizi). Another hadith has this to say: By God, he is not a believer from whose nuisance his neighbour is not safe. (Al-Bukhari) Islam aims at making

imposed upon it by God. Whereas man has to adopt this path of peace of his own free will. This has been expressed in the Quran in these words: “Are they seeking a religion other than God’s, when every soul

that his awareness of God’s bounty is most intense. That is when he feels truly grateful to the Creator and Sustainer of life. Were he to give up his whole life to the service of God, he would feel that

which might prove injurious to others. He is also to refrain from attempting to make lawful that which God

responsibility to make people aware of the life hereafter, and to warn them—they being the creations of the one God—that all of them are bound to appear before Him to give an account of their deeds. Some people believe

and financial sufferings, whereas what the prophets actually came to do was to make people aware of God’s Creation Plan for man. “He lets the spirit descend at His behest on those of His servants whom He

the Quran as having rejected the message of the prophets and as having incurred the punishment of God for their disobedience, were those very nations to whose subjects the

before us in these verses. That is, the ability to see ease in difficulty was bestowed upon him by God’s grace and guidance; he was able, by dint of courage and determination, to turn disadvantageous situations

could continue his activities with hope, even in times of great frustration. Through certain examples God made this matter clear. For instance, the Prophet of Islam underwent great hardship. His experiences

themselves the capacity to turn minuses into pluses and convert hardship into ease.The Sustenance of GodAddressing the Prophet of Islam, the Quran states: Do not regard with envy the worldly benefits We have