ACCORDING to a Hadith, the Prophet Muhammad has said: “For whoever conceals the faults of another, God will conceal his faults in this world and the Hereafter.” (Sunan Ibn Majah) This Hadith forbids using

we possess these essential qualities, we are guaranteed to succeed. This world has been devised by God so that we may succeed—but only through struggle. Success does not come to the faint of heart, those

them, but they have to believe in God without seeing Him. Human beings have immense love for wealth and children but they have to start to fear God the most and love God the most, and on that basis establish

worldly things and develop supreme concern for God alone. While man’s interest is focussed on his family and his people, and has a relationship with God only at the level of formal rituals, he will not

find a place in Paradise. Only those will find a place in Paradise who are focused on God, and whose interests are all God-oriented. Their relationships with everything and everyone else are purely duty or

ANGELS?of God. It not only states that God is only one but it also describes what it means to be the one God. This chapter has presented the concept of God in a pure and unadulterated form. God is one and

no likeness. All kinds of uniqueness inhere His Being, and this Being is of God, the Almighty. The concept of the one God is the central concept of Islam: it is this belief which is the essence of Islam

loyal and obedient creatures of God, endowed with special powers and authority to facilitate the workings of the universe. Angels are among the creatures created by God. They have been endowed with special

the price of Paradise is the realization of God. Nothing less than that can open the gates of Paradise. The truth is that if anything less than realization of God is regarded as the price of Paradise that

another name for the discovery of God. It is to see God with deep insight. It comes about in a high level of consciousness, when all worldly things lose significance and God becomes the greatest concern for

of veils are cast over God realization. Those who are able to tear aside these veils of doubt, reach that high level of conviction which is called God realization. A seeker of God realization has to pass

the price of Paradise is the realization of God. Nothing less than that can open the gates of Paradise.The truth is that if anything less than realization of God is regarded as the price of Paradise that

another name for the discovery of God. It is to see God with deep insight. It comes about in a high level of consciousness, when all worldly things lose significance and God becomes the greatest concern for

of veils are cast over God realization. Those who are able to tear aside these veils of doubt, reach that high level of conviction which is called God realization. A seeker of God realization has to pass

PARADISEParadise is the name of God’s neighbourhood. Only those will find a place in Paradise who discover God while He is unseen and starts living in the vicinity of God in this world itself. Paradise

Paradise is a unique world created by God. All kinds of comfort and happiness of a high standard exist in Paradise to the fullest extent. Paradise is the place where man will gain every kind of everlasting fulfilment

for those who become truly divine or God-oriented. Man, who is apparently, far from God becomes closer to God at the level of realization. Paradise is the name of God’s neighbourhood. Only those will be able

glorification in relation to God, that is to say, man’s expressions of God’s glory and majesty. The relation between God and man is that of Giver and Taker. A servant has nothing to give to God. The only thing he

he can offer God is to discover God as the Lord of the worlds, as the All-Powerful Being. Realization is the name of this discovery.When a servant strives towards God, that is, engages in deep thinking

thinking about God, at that time by God’s grace, the reality of God, the Omnipotent, is revealed to him. He attains realization of God with perfect conviction. He subsequently experiences an intellectual storm

fear of the tiger is negative fear, while the fear of God is totally positive fear. The fear of tiger has no positive aspect, while the fear of God is positive fear in the greatest sense of the word. Fear

that can only harm you, while fear of God is fear of a Being that can bestow on you all kinds of favour. Tiger’s fear is fear for the sake of fear, while the fear of God is for the sake of salvation, for the

eternal blessings of God Almighty. The fear of God is fear, only in form; but in spirit, it is a high kind of love and high kind of strong affection. Fear of God is full of hope. Fear of God gives you high motivation

God to be like himself, and he to be like God. This mistake has been made by man in every age. The whole of human history is the story of this mistake and its consequences. To think God to be like man

man is to try to bring God to the human level. All forms of wrong notions about God are a product of this mistake, involving assumptions about God based on wrong analogies between man and Him. We come into

was assumed that if there is a God, He, too, must have a parent or parents, that there must have been someone before God, who brought God into being. Because the eternal God is not physically visible to