suspicion. All they know is that others are their enemies; they are unable to view people as creations of God. They only look at the negative aspect of events and fail to take account of their positive aspects

Prophet asked. “The Roman and Persian emperors enjoy all worldly comforts, yet you—the messenger of God—are suffering so much,’ I replied. On hearing these words, the Prophet sat up and said, ‘Umar, what

will hardly be surprising then if we accept such an extraordinary man to have been a messenger of God. What would be surprising, on the contrary, would be to refuse

Prophet replied that he just wanted them to testify that there was none worthy of being worshipped save God, and forsake all other objects of worship. His people, however, were unwilling to accept this. When

that perhaps he would accept Islam. “Uncle,” he said, “then why don’t you testify to the oneness of God, so that I may be able to intercede for you on the Day of Judgement.” (Al-Bidayah wan- Nihayah). The

When ‘Amr ibn Murra Juhni preached Islam among his own tribe, the Juhaina, one of them spoke up: ‘May God make you taste the bitterness of life, ‘Amr. Do you want us to forsake our idols, disunite our people

jealousy from accepting the message of Islam. The Prophet proclaimed the fact that he was sent by God. But people always find it very difficult to accept the fact that someone else has been given a knowledge

stop criticizing their gods, the Prophet became concerned that his uncle was going to hand him over to the Quraysh. But Abu Talib immediately put his nephew’s mind at rest. ‘By God, I will never hand you

learnt about God’s creation plan. He knows that he should lead a God-oriented life in the pre-death phase of his life so that in the post-death phase of life he can receive a place in God’s eternal Paradise

believer), because he sees with the light of God.” How is it that a mu’min becomes a man of wisdom, in such a superior sense? It is because his faith makes him pious and God-fearing. In his state of piety, he undergoes

phenomenon, and, as had been estimated, a small amount of nitrogen was thus produced. Man, with his God-given wisdom, had marched one step forward. It was ten thousand years after the dawn of human history

seas to replenish it, were ink, the writings of Allah’s words could never be exhausted. Mighty is God and Wise.14 Anyone who has attempted to make an exhaustive study of

reality, rather than ignoring, rejecting or running counter to it. When it is a reality that there is a God of this universe and that all of us must appear before Him to be judged, it becomes the bounden duty

duty of each and every individual, whether it be a Rousseau or an ordinary layman, to be faithful to God. Winwood Reade does not suggest that Rousseau and Goethe should bow to reality: on the contrary, he

and this is obviously not unintelligible to man, for most of the great scientists have believed in God in one form or the other. Newton (1642-1727) saw a ‘divine hand’ in things which caused the movement

disintegrate at which point of time. As one scientist put it, “It may rest on the knees of whatever gods there be.” Animal life too has its inexplicable aspects. It has been proved that animal instincts