go to waste. On the contrary, such abstinence means that you should place greater reliance on what God intends for you than on what you have in hand yourself. And when misfortune strikes, you should relish

people’s preferences. But the world of the Hereafter is God’s world. There those things will be given importance which are important in the eyes of God alone; all else will become valueless. Actions in this

whereas under the natural laws, the situation here on earth makes this impossible. According to God’s creation plan, man has to be content in this world before death, so that he may be sure that in the

accordingly. His sole aim in this present world should be to make himself acceptable in the eyes of God, so that he may be held eligible for admission into Paradise in the eternal world after death. A successful

mercy of God Almighty. The preferred ones are unique people who, despite having done every kind of good deed have actually attached no value to their actions and expect that it will only be when God’s mercy

These verses of the Quran were the first to be revealed to Prophet Muhammad. They tell us what God’s purpose was in choosing this particular way of sending His revelations through His messengers, namely

man is not going to be taken to task for his actions. It was to put an end to this ignorance that God arranged for a series of prophets to bring His revelations to mankind.

GOD’S PROPHETSIt is those who have faith, and do not mix their faith with wrongdoing, who will be secure, and it is they who are rightly guided.’ This is the reasoning We gave to Abraham against his people—We

offspring, and their brothers: We chose them and guided them to a straight path. This is the guidance of God: He gives that guidance to whichever of His servants He pleases. If they had associated other deities

according to Turkish newspaper Zaman. (www.csmonitor.com) Noah’s Ark and Daabba The Quran states: ‘when God’s word is justly carried out against them, we will produce a daabba from the earth which will tell them

of da’wah, so that such conducive conditions would prevail as would encourage people to practice God’s religion and invite others to the

such as these had no trouble in understanding the truth of the Prophet’s message. The preacher of God’s word is like a planter who goes out to sow seeds. If sometimes his seeds fall on barren ground, there

‘operation’ that God has devised for every person that brings outside whatever is inside him. It reveals whatever he had concealed. Just as a man’s stomach cannot digest a diamond, this universe of God’s cannot

Hereafter as a soul laden with evil, you will be hurled into Hell. The present world is, as it were, God’s nursery. Different types of plants are grown in a nursery. The gardener inspects all of them. Those