For instance, the Quran says as-sulh khair or ‘reconciliation is best’ (4: 128). In another verse, God calls people to the ‘home of peace’, that is, Paradise (10: 25). This is the ideal world that the Quran

the oneness of God, or tawheed in Arabic. As far as belief is concerned, tawheed is the greatest thing. All Islamic teachings revolve around this belief—that God is one. The oneness of God is the most important

as far as belief is concerned, Islam is centred on tawheed or the oneness of God. As per my study, the essence of Islam is God-realization. Man is born as a unique creature. The only thing that is required

is that the place to find this world is the Hereafter rather than the present world. According to God’s creation plan, man must strive to earn a place in Paradise. Throughout human history, however, man

based on justice and human values. However, this never materialised as it went against God’s Creation Plan. God’s goal is to produce ideal people rather than an ideal system. These exemplary people, scattered

to India (15-16 July, 2001) is a source of joy for all of us. May God bless this step with full success! On 12 October 1999, when God saved you from a possible air crash and blessed you with the political

exclaimed, ‘God! You have saved me so that I can do something big!’ After this, he really went on to do something big in British history. I feel this will be repeated with you, too. I feel that God has saved

his sense of honor. To this Zubayr replied. “By God, your carrying date stones home on your head is harder for me to bear than that.”84 Such instances of how women toiled during their stay in Medina are

verse was revealed in the Quran— “They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the- way of God, unto them give tidings of a painful doom”85—then the Prophet said: “Woe to gold, woe to silver.” When

that and no other.’ The Prophet said: ‘Everyone should possess a tongue which remembers God, a heart that thanks God and a wife that helps him in his faith.”’86 Another version has used the word “Hereafter”

The polytheists had not denied the existence of God. What they had done was mould Him in the image of insensate objects. Finding it difficult to fathom a God that could not be seen, they depicted Him in material

The polytheists had not denied the existence of God. What they had done was mould Him in the image of insensate objects. Finding it difficult to fathom a God that could not be seen, they depicted Him in material

called the Bedouin and explained to him, “Mosques are intended solely for worshipping and remembering God. It is not proper to urinate or defecate in a mosque.” The Bedouin was impressed by the gentleness

was provoked. It resulted in all the members of the tribe coming to the mosque to worship the one God in all humility and submission. This is an incident from the time of the Prophet. Here are a few incidents

ego of the rival. When they should be offering God’s creatures the “water of love”, they deluge them instead in the “blood of hatred.” In this garden of God, it is only the thorns which will fall to the

one recites them. One who treats recitation of the Quran as an outpouring of feeling for God, who remembers God as he repeats His words, cannot possibly recite the whole of the Quran once or twice in a

invoke God’s protection. When he reached a verse which contained good tidings, he would show eagerness and pray to God.”ZAKATZakat, in essence, is a form of sacrifice. Its purpose is to fulfil God’s desire

the wife of the Prophet of Islam, says of him: “On every occasion, the Prophet of Islam remembered God.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 373) This tradition shows the prophetic way of purification, that is to