his people, this is what he had to say to them: “Leave this fellow to carry on with his work for, God knows, he is never going to give it up. Do not prevent him from preaching to the Arabs. If he wins

reason, and should be allowed to carry on. The very spectacle of 1500 Muslims displaying their faith in God also made a deep impact on the Quraysh. When one of their envoys came into the Muslim camp, he found

with unbelievers not to ‘revile (the idols) which they invoke besides God, lest in their ignorance they should spitefully revile God.’ (The Quran, 6:108) This principle formulated by Islam is best described

are understood as the ‘language of parable.’ To Miles, if revelation is taken to mean the word of God which is revealed to a particular man, that makes no sense. But when it is taken to mean a ‘flash of

death is literally unintelligible. Alexis Carrel calls revelation mysticism. To him: The search for God is, indeed, an entirely personal undertaking. By the exercise of the normal activities of his consciousness

said that of course, they did not believe in God. They knew very well that the church authorities, landlords and bourgeois who spoke with reference to God, were simply interested in safeguarding their

succeeding month, Safar. This clearly shows that, even in an age of ignorance, the Prophet of God said nothing that ‘smacked of ignorance.’ Had his words emanated from his unconscious mind, he would inevitably

science. The first step is to make a list of the ideas and practices associated with different religions—gods and demons, sacrifice, prayer, belief in a future life, taboos and moral rules in life. It is like

way is unclear (Foreword). Without God to guide it, the wagon of humanity has gone off course and is stranded in a quagmire of its own making. Only by turning to God can it extricate itself from this sorry

God, there will be a secular person who will provide initial direction. I have been thinking on this subject since a very long time. I have arrived at the conclusion that the “secular person” mentioned

indirectly helped in finding an answer to the question of what method one should adopt to discover God. In the time of Galileo, a very important incident occurred, which was the discovery of the telescope

Quran: Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what God would have them guard.13 The responsibilities of woman as regards man described by the Quran and sunnah

as meaning women who are obedient to their husbands.15 That is, the righteous women in the eyes of God are those who are obedient to their husbands. It is natural for a man who has been entrusted with

causing any harm to others. The prime focus offered to mankind by the Prophet is the worship of Almighty God. This means putting one’s trust in Him and fearing Him and loving Him above all else. This is a course

course of action which has been made easy for us to understand by the Prophet’s showing us how God, unlike finite matter, is infinite not only in His power but in His accessibility. He has made it

work of a poet!” They did not of course, use the word poet in any derogatory sense; yet, even so, to God this conveyed only underestimation, not total faith. (69:41). If they called it the work of a poet

ideology.THE STRAIGHT PATH OF THE INDIVIDUALThe Quran has very explicitly indicated the straight path of God, both for the individual and for society, as against the paths of deviation which human beings are