normalized the situation, thus enabling the Prophet to avail of the opportunities present at the time. What the Prophet lost in Hudaybiyyah, he gained on a far larger scale throughout the whole of Arabia.

Japan, willingly or unwillingly, accepted a treaty in which justice was delinked from peace. But what was the result? Within a period of forty years the entire scenario had changed. Japan did lose the

survival. But peace can be attained only by accepting two simple precepts. Make all efforts to change what we can, and learn to live with the things which we cannot change. In matters which we can change we

ground and covered it with mud. Witnessing such a scene could give rise to the question, “Why has Islam ordained such honourable treatment for a dead body?” It is a fact that after death, a human body is

Treasure Make the most of your life before you are struck down by illness or death. (Prophet of Islam) ABDULLAH IBN UMAR tells of how the Prophet once took him by the shoulders and said: “Live in this

is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between CE 610 and 632. It is a book that brings glad tidings to humankind, along with divine admonition

Concern about the HereafterWe learn from a tradition that once when the Prophet of Islam was at home with his wife Umm Salmah, he sent her maidservant on an errand of some urgency. She took some time to

with this miswak,” said the Prophet to the maid. (Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Hadith No. 184) The Prophet of Islam warned the people of the chastisement of Doomsday. This incident shows that this warning was not just

level of intellectual and spiritual development. Iman (faith) and da‘wah are two basic levels of Islam. If iman is a superior ideology, da‘wah is a superior course of action. Iman purifies one’s mind and

and soul, while da‘wah imbues one’s personality with a sublime probity. One who adopts Islam as a universal mission, in both the ideological and practical sense, is morally activated to the maximum possible

God, so that it might become “a sign to all posterity.” (10:92) Islam in the Present Age Now the question arises as to whether an Islam which teaches non-violence can be of relevance in

Concern about the HereafterWe learn from a tradition that once when the Prophet of Islam was at home with his wife Umm Salmah, he sent her maidservant on an errand of some urgency. She took some time to

with this miswak,” said the Prophet to the maid. (Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Hadith No. 184) The Prophet of Islam warned the people of the chastisement of Doomsday. This incident shows that this warning was not just

good people, who believed in and obeyed God, would inhabit the eternal world of Paradise. From the Islamic viewpoint, God had made this world for a limited period of time. Now those signs have appeared which

people, 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 that between his two fingers. (Sahih al-Bukhari

as brothers or uncles are responsible for her upkeep. In the absence of even this third form, the Islamic shari‘ah holds the State Treasury (baitul mal) responsible for bearing her expenses. She will be

entitled to receive the money for her necessities. Because of the number of provisions made under Islamic law for women it has never been the case in