understand the whole from the part, that he can gauge the ocean from a drop. If someone truly realizes what this world is, for him it will seem like the one-rupee coin mentioned above. He will leave aside this

which is when their real or inner reality is expressed. The way people react at such times indicates what their mindset is—heavenly or hellish. When people start fighting over money and property, when people

universe. It is especially true of our world, which has two aspects to it: appearance and reality. What we see around us, we call the world. But there is also the other invisible world of the Hereafter

outsider, while they themselves appeared entirely innocent. However when the holy man was asked about what had really happened, he simply told the truth, that the townspeople were the wrongdoers and that the

Conciliation, that is, speaking in such a way as to create an atmosphere of harmony among people. This is what constitutes well thought-out speech and is the only legitimate use of one’s tongue. This kind of speech

of an integrated personality. It tells that the concerned person is an honest person. It means that what he is saying is not simply as lip-service on his behalf, but is his sincere opinion. He is free of

detail. Once a Makkan leader met the Prophet and told him that the Makkans had reservations about what he had to say about divine revelations, because they had never witnessed an angel of God coming to

peace. O God, give us entry into the Home of Peace. O God, You are the greatest.’4 These words and what actually happened after the battle tell a very different story. In the above war the Prophet had participated

they grow, and they have feelings. But animals and men surely represent a higher form of life. In what way does man excel animals? Many theories have been advanced in answer to this question over the ages

period of satisfaction. Then, gradually, a time comes when he realizes that his job is not giving him what he had been looking for. Certainly, his work puts bread on the table but, as Jesus Christ once rightly