people said to him, ‘Do not exult in your riches, for God does not love the exultant. But seek the Home of the Hereafter by means of that which God has bestowed on you; do not forget to take your portion

portion [of the Hereafter] in this world.’ Be good to others as God has been good to you and do not strive for evil in the land, for God does not love the evil-doers.’ But he said, ‘I have been given it only

was punished by God on account of his arrogance. This story enshrines one of the divine laws: if someone receives wealth, he should be grateful to God, otherwise he will be disgraced by God Almighty. Any

is being tested in this world, God does not make himself manifest in visible form; He appears in the form of truth. Man must endeavour to recognize truth as enshrining God and bow down before it. Whenever

if God has appeared in all His majesty. If one rejects it on the grounds of prejudice, pride or expediency, then one has rejected God Himself. This action shows that one has failed to recognize God in

in the truth. One has put oneself above God and given precedence to one’s own requirements. God will have scant regard for such people on the Day of Judgement and, on

is no further justification for the perpetuation of religion. To this Huxley adds: The concept of God has reached the limits of its usefulness: it cannot evolve further. Man to carry the burden of religion

spirits to gods; from gods to God—so crudely speaking, the evolution has gone. The particular phase of that evolution which concerns us is that of God. In one period of our Western civilization the gods were

lead him directly to God. He is, in effect, sloughing off his own world, leaving it behind him, and reaching out for the world of the Almighty. He is on his way to the House of God, a place where the great

great deeds of God’s messengers and his followers have been preserved for all eternity; where we find the hallowed impressions of the lives of those who lived and died for the cause of God. The haji is then

bound for that very destination which God has specially chosen for His Last Revelation. Once launched on this course, the pilgrim is imbued with the awareness of God and His truths, as well as the feeling

its external counterpart.This is the greatest proof of God’s existence. There are many philosophic and scientific arguments on the existence of God. These arguments are only partially acceptable, for they

has discovered God at the level of his own consciousness. Where the rational arguments lead man to probability, it is this internal consciousness which gives man conviction. Finding God at the level of

is rather, a matter of internal consciousness. One who has found God at the level of this internal consciousness has really discovered God. Real faith is one which is attained as a result of internal conviction

God and Scientific Studythat this concept of God is only a matter of philosophic conjecture. It has no scientific base in fact. God and Scientific Study In present times, consequent upon the scientific

scientific study of nature, the philosophic concept of God has beenin effect rendered baseless. Today scientific study shows that in the universe there is perfect meaningfulness. This kind of meaningfulness could

could not be possible unless the Creator had a mind. Therefore, in science, without taking the name of God, it has been accepted that the one who has brought this universe into existence is an intelligent designer

the Quran, the essence of worship is to be God-fearing. This finds expression in a hadith. Once the Prophet observed pointing to his heart, ‘The fear of God lies here,’ (At Taqwa ha huna) (Bukhari). The

realization of and strong attachment to God in which man is so involved that he can experience the very presence of God. The Prophet is reported to have said, “Pray to God as if you are seeing Him.” (Mishkat

which the worshipper is so lost in thoughts of God that he finds himself very close to Him. His apprehension of the divine presence should be as keen as if God were actually seeing him. This state of psychological

Thinking for God’s DiscoveryPerhaps, the greatest tragedy of human history is man’s failure to achieve a high level of God-realization, or deeper discovery of God. The way to attain realization of God is to contemplate

contemplate in God’s creations. Prior to the scientific age, humans knew very little about the creations of God. In ancient times, the framework did not exist which was required for attaining a high level

level of God realization. In present times, the scientific revolution has made available to a person that superior framework which was predicted thus in the Quran: “We shall show them Our signs in the universe

today’s world and tomorrow’s world can be understood by an example. Today’s world has been made by God for action (performance) and tomorrow’s world for achieving the results of the performance of those

are expected to obey the commandments of God so far as they themselves are concerned. And in relation to non- Muslims they are responsible for conveying God’s message to them. Now let us take the first

two major categories: the individual and collective (or social). Individual obedience means obeying God in those matters which are related to the personal lives of the faithful. It covers all those commandments

submitting individually, surrendering to the will of God in one’s own personal affairs. A Muslim is not allowed to disobey God once he knows God’s commandments in relation to his personal life, and once