domination in Arabia, he could put this theory into practice as ruler of a state. The Prophet said: “God has removed the pride of the Days of ignorance from you and boasting about lineage. (A person is either)

lamentations, but plunge straight into whatever action is essential to the reparation of our losses. This God-given capacity for reconstruction should never be allowed to languish, for it is that very quality

that the Angel Jibril (Gabrial) came to him for the first time and gave him the good tidings that God had chosen him as His Prophet. The first few verses revealed to him on this occasion form part of chapter

religious expansion. In reality, Islam spread on the basis of the ideology of tawhid (the oneness of God) and it were the Sufis who played a major role in the spread of Islam. The Sufis, as is well known

angels. He remains patient instead of complaining. He pays his dues and asks for his rights only from God. These are the noble qualities which will make one deserving of entry into Paradise.

living act. The real means of attaining the ends of tazkiyah is for man to reflect on the signs of God, activate his thinking, and through continuous reflection or pondering, discover the deeper realities

then they were given notice to choose between “this life and all its finery”, on the one hand, or God and His Messenger on the other.12 The establishment of the prophet hood, which would become a subject

for obeying the Quran. The Quranic commandments are actually laws of nature, on the basis of which God has established the system that governs this world. It is by following these laws that the cosmic system

religious expansion. In reality, Islam spread on the basis of the ideology of tawhid (the oneness of God) and it were the Sufis who played a major role in the spread of Islam. The Sufis, as is well known

in a different way: God-realization is to have conviction in God’s existence, as if you were seeing Him. How can one achieve this kind of ma‘arifah? The way to achieve ma‘arifah is to first of all discover

discovery of God in the language of science. This means that when the universe has a beginning, then certainly there must be a beginner of the universe, who in religious terminology has been called God. The

The conscious discovery of this God is known as ma‘arifah. One who attains to this ma‘arifah will experience an intellectual and spiritual explosion. He will believe in God through both reason and intuition