people’s beliefs and actions. Consequently, people turned against them. If the prophets had taught what everyone wanted to hear, they would never have been treated in this manner. Although this was the

conflict coming between himself—the teacher—and those to whom he was addressing his teachings. No matter what price had to be paid, he would let no

universe came into existence. Scientists have found evidence to believe that in the beginning there was what they call a cosmic ball. All the particles now present in the universe were tightly bound to each

al-Qudha’i, Hadith No. 1159) The realization of faith or truth is, in itself, a thing of this nature. What is realization of faith? That is for man to discover the Creator by pondering upon His creation and

years and now, according to Professor Eddington’s calculations, the present circumference is ten times what it was originally. This process of expansion is still going on. Professor Eddington explains that

principle, it was, of course, wrongly understood. Sometimes, this sort of error goes beyond this, so that what was meant to be relevant in a particular context is wrongly interpreted as general in application

To them, this is the mythicization of a historical event. But the right approach is to believe that what has been proved by geological research is a historical affirmation of the Great Flood which has been

became a matter of common knowledge. The Difference between the Statements in the Quran and the Bible What is worth mentioning here is that in this matter there is a difference between the statements in the

Be RealisticIn April 1986, a group of Sikhs got together in Amritsar and declared what they called the independent state of Khalistan. At this time I wrote an article in the Hindustan Times, captioned

exactitude in their affairs by becoming ethically attuned to the divine scheme of things, for, after all, what is monotheism but the fountainhead of all good: all evil in the world stems from hampering the prevalence