do you know what the weakest point in Islam is? Islam does not admit gender equality!” Modern man finds such concepts unacceptable. The modern age is one of gender equality, while Islam talks of gender

do you know what the weakest point in Islam is? Islam does not admit gender equality!” Modern man finds such concepts unacceptable. The modern age is one of gender equality, while Islam talks of gender

is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between AD 610 and 632. It is a book that brings glad tidings to humankind, along with divine admonition

name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful The Inevitable Hour! What is the Inevitable Hour? And what will make you realize what the Inevitable Hour is? The tribes of Thamud and ‘Ad denied that disaster

61.WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST LEARNING IN LIFE?I was a seeker throughout my life. My pursuit began with the question I used to pose to God. I would often say to God: ‘O God, when will you come and till when

should I discover Him? I had left Islam for about five years and had become an agnostic. I then discovered God and wrote the book, Islam Rediscovered. So, I found Islam as a matter of discovery and my belief

61.WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST LEARNING IN LIFE?I was a seeker throughout my life. My pursuit began with the question I used to pose to God. I would often say to God: ‘O God, when will you come and till when

should I discover Him? I had left Islam for about five years and had become an agnostic. I then discovered God and wrote the book, Islam Rediscovered. So, I found Islam as a matter of discovery and my belief

is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between CE 610 and 632. It is a book that brings glad tidings to humankind, along with divine admonition

using his wisdom and consciousness does a man achieve that status which is called (taqwa) in the Islamic law. God sent His messenger ‘so that he might lead those, who have attained to faith and do good

meaning of this verse. ‘So that you may know that God has power over all things’. This indicates that what God truly requires of man is ‘knowledge’ i.e. the consciousness of God’s Being. This vast system of

Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been

Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Peace award for promoting peace in Muslim societies. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognized as one of its most influential Muslims . His

of all that is negative, leaving only what is positive. The good cannot be separated from the bad. This being so, there is only one option for us, and that is what we call nonviolence. Non-violence is not

Prophet of Islam observed: “You should save yourselves from suspicion, because suspicion is the worst of falsehoods” (Sahih, Muslim). There are many traditions from which we learn the dictates of Islam on this

this subject as well as what conformance with them entails. That is, people should keep their hearts free of misgivings about others. If anything negative is said about others, they should not believe it

investigate the whole matter thoroughly and only then draw their conclusion. The ideal person according to Islam is one who holds positive views about others; who has only good thoughts and feelings about them.OCTOBER

ideological extremism. Where there is no extremism, there is no violence. By forbidding extremism, Islam cuts off the very roots of violence. According to a hadith (contained in the collections of Sunan

No. 3029; Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 1851), in Islam there is no extremism, or what in Arabic is called ghulu. Another cause for violence is anger. In Islam, anger is considered to be a grave moral failure

one who, when he experiences anger, forgives. Clearly, if people were to act on this teaching of Islam and forgive others whenever they become angry with them, they would never become violent. Yet another

103.WHAT IS CHARITY AND WHAT IS THE ISLAMIC CONCEPT OF CHARITY?Charity in Islam (zakat) is the giving of alms out of one’s own private means at a minimum fixed rate. This money is given in the name of

and life itself would come to a standstill. Charity is a way of acknowledging this fact of life. Islam desires that private wealth should be considered as belonging to God. In so doing, no one should consider