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

Pakistan Army, General Raheel Sharif, addressing a conference at the National Defense University in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 3, 2015, said that Pakistan and Kashmir were inseparable, and that Kashmir was

is soon verbalized in the form of complaints and protests. Finally, it takes the form of violence. What is this unfinished agenda? For some Muslims it is the unfinished agenda of Pakistan, for others it

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 unpleasant

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

TAZKIYAH : A SOURCE OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTFaith initially brings us into the fold of Islam, then tazkiyah helps in the development of this faith. If initially, one’s faith is in the form of a seed

seed, it will keep growing and assume the form of a fully-grown tree–tazkiyah is the Islamic name for this intellectual process. Tazkiyah literally means purification. In the extended sense it means growth

Taif, a city located three miles away from Makkah, where he hoped to call the tribe of Thaqif to Islam, and to solicit their support. The people of Taif not only refused to hear him, but repudiated him

nobleman of Makkah, where he finally took shelter. Once he said to his wife, Aisha, “I have suffered what I have suffered from your people, but the hardest of these days was the day of Taif.” The Prophet

over woman has been described in the Quran in these words: “... and guard in (the husband’s) absence what God would have them guard.”16 Woman is man’s garment. Just as a garment is closest to man so a woman

Such an attempt would neither be useful nor practically possible. The solution offered by the Islamic shari’ah is to make it binding upon the woman to guard the man’s secrets. In no circumstances may

litter which his fellow Quraysh had put in the street on which he was passing, he said in dismay: ‘What bad neighbours the Banu Abd Manaf are.’ (Tahzeeb Seerat Ibn Hisham, p. 86) While the Prophet’s uncle

Prophet would have amounted to aggression against his whole tribe—the Banu Hashim. Before he accepted Islam, Umar ibn Khattab once set off with a sword in hand with the intention of killing Muhammad, on whom

made by altitude. Islam’s aim is to foster human beings whose altitude has changed. The superior qualities desired in him will come later, on their own. Just as the Prophet of Islam was God’s messenger

describe the soul being at complete rest is to give certain examples from the life of the Prophet of Islam. The Prophet’s name was Muhammad, meaning the praised one or the praiseworthy. But when the Makkans

remain wood, and will only induce indigestion rather than satisfy the need for food in the stomach. What is it, then, that helps termites? There are many microorganisms in the intestines of the termite to

knowledge of the cosmos is minimal compared to the vastness of the universe. What we have yet to see, is much more than what we have seen. “Coincidence” cannot explain the presence of these seven different

different things, which are found to be in precise and in perfect condition. What is even more baffling is why are only these things accumulated in the egg by “coincidence”. Why not a leaf of a plant, some

playing a major part in the conquest of Africa. 2. ‘Abdullah ibn Khatal, who had previously accepted Islam and been sent by the Prophet to collect alms tax. A slave and one of the Ansar went along with him

was granted. She then became Muslim. 5. Huwayrith ibn Nafidh ibn Wahab, another poet and who held Islam in very great contempt, who made his name