the goats, help the servants at their work, and eat his meals with them; and he would go to fetch what we needed from the market.” He seldom had more than one set of clothes, which he washed himself. He

introduction to Paradise: a natural introduction and a cultural introduction. A natural introduction means what a man realizes by his observation of natural scenes. Scenes of nature provide man with an introduction

method of dealing with it. If one lives in God, then one will not act on impulse; one will consider what is just and unjust in God’s sight. Though fame and wealth may lie on the path of injustice, one forsakes

misuse of one’s discretion. One is using it to accelerate one’s own journey to hell, for, to preach what one fails to practice is an offence in the eyes of God; it is not an action which will earn one any

strikes the mighty in the same way as it strikes the helpless. Earthquakes give us prior warning of what is eventually going to happen to all of us in this world. They remind us in this world of the doomsday

the chance to warn others, nor they the chance to listen. Under these circumstances, it is clear what our real task must be: we must dwell on the life after death and warn our fellows of it, for this

ungrateful.” (7:16-17) In this verse, his being put in the wrong implies his being put to the test. What Iblis wanted to say was that under normal conditions, he was able to follow divine commands but the

our life has two pre-death and post-death stages. No one can obtain in the pre-death stage of life what the Creator has placed for the post-death stage. One can get Paradise only in life after death. For