money and buy the necklace. In this world, everyone is delighted with his deeds; everyone thinks of what he has done as gold. But gold is only real when it is shown to be such on the goldsmith’s touchstone

will be in the next world. In this world, everyone is delighted with his deeds; everyone thinks of what he has done as gold. But gold is only real when it is shown to be such on the goldsmith’s touchstone

to be made of brass, then they will only mean disgrace and doom. People have the chance to disown what belonged to them, in the world. But on the Day of Judgement there will be no disownment. That which

within one, which all the words one knows are inadequate to express. A concise way of describing the Islamic way of life is to say that it is a life of self-control. The various controls and the code of discipline

MAN A GIFTED CREATIONValue Your Life THE Prophet of Islam is reported to have said: God created Adam in His own image (Sahih Bukhari). However, this does not mean that man is like God in physical appearance

down from a high ethical plane to the level of brutishness. According to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam observed—“The believer is like a gentle plant. Whenever the wind blows, it inclines accordingly, and

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PEACE IN ISLAMTHE QURAN is undoubtedly a book of peace. It is not a book of war and violence. This can be judged from the fact that all of the Quran’s pronouncements are directly or indirectly related

In order to conduct an objective study of this subject, it is necessary to differentiate between Islam and Muslims. Muslim action

today’s world, we see that most intelligent people shy away from devoting themselves to religion. What is the reason for this? It is the attraction of immediate gain. As the Quran says: Truly, you love

incompetent to perform religious work. For the Sake of the Future Forget what you have lost so that you can achieve what still remains.

principled life, in spite of having no compulsion to do so. It is this very lifestyle which is called Islam.

INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTInner Purification THE most desirable thing in Islam is the purification of the individual; in other words, the intellectual development of the individual in accordance with the

that he had been reading Al-Risala regularly. (Al-Risala magazine is the Urdu version of Spirit of Islam.) He went on to say that he liked the magazine very much. However, he had one reservation. He did