JUNE 24 No Thanks-givingIn his book, The Cultural Side of Islam, Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall (1875-1936) writes of an argument which appeared many years ago in the British press on whether, in the case

it is because he has become insensible to it. The debaters on this issue never stopped to consider what an extraordinarily rare miracle is the human child. They did not think how far more precious it was

prediction, and in the end things turn out quite differently from what people had initially expected. To take an example from Islamic history, in the year 6AH the Treaty of Hudaybiyah was signed between

never, therefore, be directed towards construction. Freedom for India had spelt nothing but ruin. What Hindus and Muslims needed to do was abandon their policy of mutual hostility in exactly the same way

This theory, responsible for their isolations had nothing, however, to do with either reason or Islam, because a nation is established on the basis of land, not religion. Without doubt Hindus and Muslims

silently, to the truth of his prophethood and divine revelation. What further miracle was then required? The prophethood of the Prophet of Islam was for all time to come. That being so, a miracle of a temporary

month of Ramadan according to the lunar calendar. The first revelation was made to the Prophet of Islam when he was in the cave of Hira, near Makkah and it continued for the next twenty-three years, finally

its message. During this time, one finds time to reflect on one’s life, one’s past and present, and what course to follow in the future. In the night the Quran is also recited during tarawih. This means

PURIFICATION OF THE SELFPurification (tazkiyah) covers a number of Islamic imperatives: purifying oneself of the temptations of the self and Satan and refraining from negative reaction when faced with

attach great importance to the process of purification. Purification (tazkiyah) covers a number of Islamic imperatives: purifying oneself of the temptations of the self and Satan; refraining from negative

exactly to bring about this understanding that the Prophet said: “It is not poverty that I fear for you, What I fear for you is that you should have too much access to worldly wealth, as happened to communities

propounded in both the main collections of the teachings of the Prophet, Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. What the Prophet warned of, we have seen happening in recent decades all over the Muslim world. Muslims

the great deceiver tainting one’s vision and preventing one from seeing things as they truly are. What is before our eyes today, we come to think of it as permanent; but it will be gone tomorrow. For this

one who can carry his ambitions into effect no matter what hurdles he has to leap over. He is the one who will arrive at his destination no matter what obstacles are strewn in his path The idea of profiting

one who can carry his ambitions into effect no matter what hurdles he has to leap over. He is the one who will arrive at his destination no matter what obstacles are strewn in his path. He is the one who

Encyclopaedia Britannica (1984) describes this as an accident of history (9:32). But the truth is that what happened in the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 was not an accident of history in the simple sense

of Jammu and Kashmir is now in a position to demonstrate to the world, in the 21st century, that Islam is a religion not of violence, but of peace, in the full sense. History shows that problems always