a noble character and enables one to be deserving of angels’ company. Tazkiya brings one closer to God. Without this a person is like dry wood; whereas with tazkiya, one becomes a green tree. Tazkiya is

awakened. A material event had transformed into a spiritual event. These words came to my lips: “May God do the same for me when the time comes for me to leave the world.” Then it should be a moment when

they cannot live without them. Such habits have progressively caused great deprivation to a person. God has granted an individual a mind to think of important things, discover and understand important realities

chapter 40, one of which was as follows: “To whom shall the kingdom belong that Day? It shall belong to God, the One, the All Powerful.” (40:16)

objectivity. There is no human being who is not sadly deficient in both of these areas. It is only God who is omniscient, and flawless as a Being, and while works wrought by the human hand are invariably

al-Haramayn, “I saw myself in a dream as Qaimuzzaman or Master of the Age” (p. 89), which means that when God Almighty wanted to establish a system of goodness and benevolence, He made him a tool and a medium

Qur’an says ‘reconciliation is the best’ (4:128). Similarly the Prophet Muhammad e has observed: “God grants to gentleness (rifq) what he does not grant to violence (unf). (Sunan Abu Dawud 4/255) Some

have invariably found themselves in unpropitious situations. There is a hadith to this effect: “When God loves a people, He puts them to the test.” Unfavourable circumstances are not peculiar to non-Muslim

peaceful struggle. As mentioned earlier, one form of this peaceful struggle is dawah, inviting people to God. The jihad that the Quran (25:52) refers to is not about military action. Instead, it refers to an

destroy available opportunities are a result of Satan’s ‘beautification’. One must, therefore, implore God for His forgiveness and abandon this path. Violence in itself is entirely undesirable. It can never