each of you. And had God so willed He would have made you all a single community, but He wanted to try you by what He had given you. Vie with each other then in good works, for to God you shall all return

follow nature’s perfect models. The religion of the universe is based on submission. Submission to God is the only religion for both man and the universe. These natural models do not speak: they never

his own choice. So for good behaviour, man will be amply rewarded. Man being the special creation of God Almighty, he will be given a special reward for good conduct in this world as well as in the world

down to earth for the first time since it was created.” The angel said to the Prophet: “O Muhammad, God has sent me to you. He has asked me to question you: what do you want to become—a king-prophet or a

convey to people a non-political message. Similarly, there is a prayer of the Prophet which says: ‘O God, You are peace. Peace comes from You and peace

taught the elephant to do this? Surely it must have been God who gave him his instinct for survival, thus setting upon him His seal of divine approval. God has given us this example to show us that when there

the Conquest of Makkah, how was it that the Prophet forgave people who were guilty in the sight of God? When a woman named Fatimah belonging to the Banu Makhzum tribe, had committed a theft, her kith and

visibly upset when he heard Usamah’s words. “Are you trying to persuade me with regard to limits that God has set down?” he asked. The Prophet then called people together and, delivered an address. “By the

weak. Thus we were, until God sent us a Messenger from out of our midst, one whose lineage we knew, and his veracity, his trustworthiness and his integrity. He called us unto God, that we should testify

And it is the party of God that shall triumph.6 In his book, History of the Arabs, Professor Philip K. Hitti has written that “after the death of the Prophet, sterile Arabia seems to have been converted

Islamic thought has to gain ascendancy over every other system of thought. This was the task that God chose the Prophet and his companions to perform, and its immensity should not be under-estimated. If

revelation has brought the whole human race to the doorstep of the faith of one God or tawhid. The time has come when the idea of one God should be presented to the people of the world who would accept it as the

treaty began to be written with the wording “This agreement is between the Prophet, the messenger of God”, the representatives of the other party (Quraysh) objected to this, saying that since they did not

advance, we must first be willing to go back or retreat. If we want the title of the messenger of God to be written on the pages of the world, we should at times be willing to delete it from the paper

inexplicable movement of primary matter. ‘Had there been in them (the heavens and earth) gods beside the One God, there would have been disorder in both of them.’ (The Quran, 21:22). These Quranic words