only if you enter the field of life equipped with the proper skills, that you feel entitled to claim what is your due. Even after the “last date” you can be given admission to a college without anyone else

people earn less and others earn more, it results from natural law and not any oppression. That is why what is needed is for opportunities for work to be expanded as much as possible. Following this, people

where rewards and punishments for good and evil actions respectively should be meted out. We want that what is to happen on the coming Day of Judgment should happen today, before our very eyes. Every day,

himself become the living proof of his crime. Exactly this sort of thing, but in a more severe form, is what is going to happen with everyone in the Hereafter. In this world, people oppress one another, rob

substantiation of the Quran’s claim that no one would be able to write a work like it (17:88) comes from what Ernest Renan has called the ‘linguistic miracle’ of the Arabic language. As with every other language

tells us (25:60) that the idolators of Mecca were baffled at the word ‘rahman’. They used to say, “What is this ‘rahman’?” This is because the word was not Arabic: it has been taken from the Sabean and

distraught. We owe much to the human sciences. Yet the absolute maximum that we can learn from them is what the universe is. Till now, they have not given us one iota of knowledge on the subject of why the

Quran that we must turn. If we want to know how things came into existence, how they are sustained and what their future will be, it is the Quran alone which will tell us. In so doing, it will acquaint us with

God ordered every prophet to establish prayer, give zakat, acknowledge God and obey Him— and this is what iqamat-e deen is. Abu Hayyan (d. 1344 C.E.) commented about iqamat-e deen in this context as follows:

30, the Quran has this to say: ‘Have we sent down to them any authority which speaks in favour of what they associate with Him?’ (The Quran, 30:35).