Prophet and his Companions, therefore, they would be regarded as innovations. The Sufi replied that what is forbidden in the Hadith is innovation in religion (ihdath fil-amr). It does not forbid innovation

shows that the majority of the people do not allow their conscience to act as a guide to tazkiya. What is the reason for this? The reason is that everyone is given another faculty, which is the opposite

spirituality. But these activities have not yielded any real results. Despite all man’s efforts and struggle, what has been gained is ecstasy rather than the intellectual development which was desired from these activities

4316) In this hadith, the word aql is used in the sense of understanding. In this tradition aql means what we may call consciousness. And the hadith means that if a person engages in the remembrance of God

Habsburg bought this area. In 1352, it was incorporated into the Swiss Confederation. In the period of what is called ‘The Reformation’, it remained Roman Catholic. There are still many historical buildings

the legacy of the past. However, so far as playing the role of intellectual leadership is concerned, what is required is to possess the vision or foresight into the future. The leadership role is played in

to find some alternative discipline that may help us reach our desired intellectual goal. Science What is science? According to its definition “Science is a branch of knowledge concerned with the material

practices, that virtuous man could not be born which these practices aimed at producing. Therefore, what is commonly thought of as spiritual ‘attainment’ from the mystical perspective is ecstasy: It is not

fantastic planet we live on today. Then, when man first came to inhabit the earth, there was a period of what we would now call underdevelopment. After this came another evolutionary phase in the wake of the

to tell human beings in a language understandable to them what the creation plan of God for them was. The arrival of the prophets continued over long periods of time. The first man, Adam himself, was