preparing yourself for your death before it actually happens. In this way, you can ponder deeply on what might await you in the life after death and so you can accordingly plan how you want to spend your

collapsed. He was taken to London’s Middlesex Hospital, where he regained consciousness for a while. “What is wrong with me, Doctor?” he enquired. The doctors told him that they would be able to say within

God, a man’s parents are the ones to whom he is most indebted. But where there is a clash between what his parents desire from him and God’s will, he must disregard the former in favour of the latter.

vastly spread out and at all times giving out benefits. A good man is one who is like a good tree. What is a tree? A tree begins from a seed, then it turns into a plant, then a strong trunk, then branches

and who exhort one another to steadfastness. (103:1-2) In this chapter the Quran refers to time. What is time? Time is a passing phenomenon; it is always in a state of travel, from present to future,

lowest of the low, except for those who believe and do good deeds—theirs shall be an unending reward! What then after this, can make you deny the Last Judgement? Is not God the greatest of the judges? (95:4-8)

won’t leave you to go anywhere: Zayd replied. His father and uncle were incensed on hearing this. “What, do you prefer slavery to freedom?’ they asked. “Do you want to forsake your own folk, and live amongst

wield their swords alongside the Muslims. They provided psychological rather than military support. What they did, as on several other occasions, was “give courage to the believers, and cast terror into

and you intend to grant him protection. What do you want to do? Wage war upon the whole of the Arab nation?”45 He knew that to offer refuge to a person who had been disowned by his own tribe was to declare

to stop ringing their bells, they got angry. And that is how the riot started.” I said to the men, “What Shariah-related issue is this that you insist that during the Muslim prayer-time a non- Muslim should