persist for weeks to months. (NASA Earth Observatory , October 4, 2021) A tradition of the Prophet of Islam states that the smoke will last for forty days: “There will be smoke (dukhan) that fills the space

OF IBN MAJAH ON THE AUTHORITY OF ‘ABDULLAH IBN AL-’ABBAS.When the Prophet was asked which form of Islam was better, he replied, ‘To feed the people and extend greetings of peace to them – be they of your

one faces. People think according to this mould, and form their opinions according to it. No matter what the reality of things may actually be, our ideas about them are those that accord with our particular

think that what we are conditioned to believe is true. In this situation, what each one of us needs to do is to constantly introspect. We must keep trying to find out what is natural and what things our

(96: 19) says ‘prostrate yourself and come closer to God.’ According to a Hadith, the Prophet of Islam said: The nearest a person comes to his Lord is when he is in prostration, so make supplications to

Apostle of Allah and to convert to Islam. She remaining until her death in 620 A.D. a source of comfort and support to him. She gladly spent all her wealth in the cause of Islam.

activities—which are the real aim of the Islamic mission—could be carried on with. With this treaty, normalcy was established, and so all the constructive activities that Islam promotes began being carried out

out in full swing. And the final result of this was that Islam spread across the entire region.

the same way with enemies as with combatants. The result of this would be that interests of the Islamic dawah would be hurt and the desirable dawah efforts would stop. One must adopt stern precautionary

same human relations with all of them so that the work of Islamic dawah may continue uninterruptedly and under no condition comes to a halt. Islam clearly teaches us that even in a situation of an actual

wanted, emerged. This was a great change, a unique revolution that changed the face of the globe. Islam overthrew the traditional order of history. This revolution was so vast that it could not come about

revolution of the early period of Islam was a push, as it were, that was given to history. After this, history began moving in a particular direction. The process that started with Islam in the seventh century then

religion, too. For instance, some modern Muslim thinkers have interpreted Islam in such an extremist manner that all systems other than Islam have been branded as taghuti nizams or ‘false or evil systems’. These

systems’ was the product of some extremist minds. It does not have anything in common with the real Islam. This is why practical realities have compelled many of those who once upheld this erroneous ideology

titled, ‘Islam’, penned by a Christian writer and published in an American encyclopaedia, has this to say: Its advent changed the course of human history. It is quite true that after the Islamic revolution

revolution of the first phase (of Islam), human history saw such tremendous changes as had never before been seen. The actual reason for all these changes was that the continuity of polytheism came to an end