In a Totally Different Worldis to learn why God created us. We need to understand what the Creator’s creation plan is and then spend our life here in line with it, so that in the next world, after death

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) It means that while man is born as a complete personality, his

their woes to them—as if they were the sole purveyors of these impregnable locks. But in this world of God, there is no attitude more insensate than this. Here, if we feel deprived and thwarted, it is because

for the life after death, and the unwise is one who follows his desires and pins all his hopes on God, without any preparation. An old man once lamented that life for him was reduced to nothing but

lost his faith. “I have not lost my faith,” Thamamah answered. “Rather I have adopted the faith of God and His Prophet.” Thamamah, moreover, became a source of strength to Islam. Yamamah was one of the

latter recited some verses of the Quran to him, Walid was very impressed by the style of the Book of God. When Abu Jahl heard about this, he went to see Walid, and told him that people would make a collection

had his say, the Prophet asked him: “Have you finished?” ‘Utbah said that he had. “In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful,” the Prophet began, and then went on to recite the first thirteen verses

Muslim: the Prophet himself, Abu Bakr, ‘Ammar, Sa’id, Suhayb, Bilal and Miqdad. “As for the Prophet, God protected him through his uncle. As for Abu Bakr, his tribe looked after him. The rest would be seized

taking this step. When Abu Talib, at the Quraysh’s behest, asked his nephew to stop criticizing their gods, the Prophet became concerned that his uncle was going to hand him over to the Quraysh. But Abu Talib

Quran: Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what God would have them guard.113 The responsibilities of woman as regards man described by the Quran and sunnah