with their mouths: but God seeks only to perfect His light, however much the infidels may abhor it.’ (9:32, 33) Granting ideological ascendancy to God’s religion was a matter of considerable complexity

complexity, amounting to the writing of history afresh. For although God’s unassailable truth had always existed, it had become obscured by false and misguided ideas, because thinking, the arts and learning in

idolatry. This had led to a veil being thrown over true religion, which was the only proper vehicle for God’s truth. The coercive systems of the monarchies which prevailed all over the world at that time were

friends and according better treatment to foes.” When a sufi or mystic is engrossed in the love of God, he rises above the mundane world and discovers the higher realities. He becomes such a human being

are the religion of human nature as well as what Islam demands of us. The Quran tells us, “...and God calls you to the home of peace” (10:25). One of the teachings of Islam is that when two or more people

turn their faces to either side and utter the words Assalamu-‘Alaikum wa rahmatullah (May peace and God’s blessing be upon you). This is like a pledge given to people: ‘O people, you are safe from me. Your

of all he was determined to inform his kinsfolk that he had been chosen to communicate the word of God to humanity. For this purpose he called all his relatives— about forty were invited of whom at least

his words, but only ‘All, who was a young boy at the time, responded positively. “I will, Prophet of God,” he said. “You, ‘All, you, ‘All!” came the Prophet’s reply.10 One day Abu Jahal threw a stone at

be food for you and for them.” Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.” (Genesis, 6:9-22) “Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the Ark, you and all your household, because

everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the Ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth