After this prayer he should engage himself in other daily activities, keeping the teaching’s of Islam before him at all times. Instead of being led by his desires, he should follow God’s commands.Assalamu

brothers when they meet them, by saying Assalamu alaikum that is, peace be upon you. According to the Islamic code of behaviour, when a Muslim meets another Muslim brother, he should greet him with these words

all work in the name of God, the most merciful, the most beneficent. According to the Prophet of Islam, any task which has not been started by taking the name of God is not well founded. This phrase reminds

Throughout this month, believers can eat and drink during the night, but not in the daytime. According to Islamic teaching, fasting is not simply about experiencing hunger and thirst. In fact, hunger and thirst

symbolic of purifying the soul and training ourselves to control or manage our desires. The Prophet of Islam has said that one, who fails to abstain from using abusive language and persists in his evil habits

one’s desires and to try to live a life of self-restraint. According to Abu Huraira, the Prophet of Islam once observed: ‘When any one of you is fasting, he should refrain from all indecencies. He should

on that day. Nothing else will be of any consequence. On that day, man will be judged. From the Islamic viewpoint, God had made this world for a limited period. Those signs have appeared, which tell us

who obeyed God, would inhabit the eternal world of Paradise. In the 7th century, the Prophet of Islam said that the distance between him and Doomsday was only between his two fingers. (Sahih al-Bukhari

God-realization A certain American scholar having studied Islam, once wrote a book on the subject in which he observed that the greatest concern of Islam was Allah. This is one hundred percent true. The door

word fiqh came to be used for formal Islamic jurisprudence. That is to say, the body of legal rules governing ritual and social activities, extracted from Islamic sources. However, this meaning of the

their appearance. Holding them sacred, he began to worship them. For the first time in human history, Islam succeeded in convincing people that these phenomena of nature were not creators, but only creatures

looked upon by ancient man with reverence, have now become objects of investigation. In other words, Islam started the process of scientific enquiry. The Quran repeatedly enjoins man to reflect on the

God-RealizationAcertain American scholar having studied Islam, once wrote a book on the subject in which he observed that the greatest concern of Islam was Allah. This is one hundred percent true. The door

they believe in the Prophet of Islam. Belief in him is in no way incompatible with adherence to their own religion in its most complete and perfect possible form. Those who deny his prophethood are proving

prophets. Those who really believe in God and His prophets recognize the religion of the Prophet of Islam as their own. They receive it with enthusiasm as one does a long-lost belonging.Towards DeathDeath

approach of patience, tolerance and avoidance is undoubtedly one of the most important principles of Islam. (8.SS/9.95)MARCH 31 Gerard of CremonaGerard, who was born in Cremona, Lombardy, in 1114, was a medieval

the western world.” In 1187, in Toledo, Gerard fell ill, and felt that his end was near. He wondered what would happen when he was gone. “These books

success of your life by starting with the lift and expecting it to do everything for you.JUNE 23 What is MysticismThe concept of spiritualism or mysticism has existed in the world for thousands of years

years. It has many schools of thought, which must be dealt here, albeit briefly, in order that the Islamic concept of spiritualism can come out clearly vis-à-vis other schools of spiritualism. Three basic