“When God created Paradise, He said to Gabriel: ‘Go and look at Paradise.’ Gabriel went and looked at all the blessings God had provided for man in Paradise. Then Gabriel came back and said: ‘O my Lord

Lord, by Your Honour and Might, whoever knows of Paradise will surely enter it.’ Then God covered Paradise, with all kinds of unpleasant things. Then He said to Gabriel: ‘Go and have a look at it.’ Gabriel

I am afraid that no one will enter it.’ God created Hell, then He said: ‘Gabriel go and look at it.’ Gabriel did as he was told. Then he came back and said to God: ‘O my Lord, By Your Honour and Might,

God in everything that exists here. The entire cosmos is a table spread of divine sustenance. If faith in God gives someone the sensitivity that true faith in God engenders, he will see God’s light everywhere

touches him, He will feel that he is experiencing the touch of God in the softness of the breeze. In the flow of a stream he will see the mercy of God expressing itself. When he hears the chirruping of birds

world has been made in such a way that on seeing it, a person can draw a lesson. Those who truly love God can experience these divine states. The Flame-of-the-Forest is a tree that bears amazingly beautiful

will ask God for only that which is acceptable to Him. He will not say such prayers to God as are not in accordance with the way of God. An Example of the Prophet’s Prayer All the prophets of God have said

emotionally very disturbed. In total helplessness, he fell down in prostration before God. At that time, he uttered these words: “O God, if You destroy this group of believers, You will never be worshipped on the

the earth.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 208). This dua, in respect of Prophet’s godly feelings (rabbani feelings), was a dua with ism-e-aazam, which was

experience will lead you to the discovery of two things at the same time. Firstly, there is a powerful God in this universe, who is its Creator as well as its Sustainer. If you can recall this sight of the

universe, and that without God, your very existence is not possible. This is the most important reality of life. When one comprehends this reality, one will voluntarily turn towards God. With one’s whole being

being, one will call out: “O God, help me! For, without Your help everything will go wrong.” In this vast universe, man’s only source of support is God. It is by God’s guidance that man’s ship is brought

soul was now in communion with the Lord of the Universe. God now chose him as His special envoy and gave him guidance. The Revelation of God began descending upon him and continued to do so for twenty

twenty three years, at the end of which time, the last Scripture of God, the Quran, reached completion. The Prophet of Islam had discovered the Truth, but not before the fortieth year of his difficult life

power of Almighty God. It was essentially a discovery of how humble and powerless he himself was before God’s superb omnipotence, of his own nothingness before the supernal magnitude of God. It was a discovery

will ask God for only that which is acceptable to Him. He will not say such prayers to God as are not in accordance with the way of God. An Example of the Prophet’s Prayer All the prophets of God have said

emotionally very disturbed. In total helplessness, he fell down in prostration before God. At that time, he uttered these words: “O God, if You destroy this group of believers, You will never be worshipped on the

the earth.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 208). This dua, in respect of Prophet’s godly feelings (rabbani feelings), was a dua with ism-e-aazam, which was

he soothes the pain of one of God’s servants-doing so only for the sake of God—at that very moment he finds God Himself.

been tamed to meet human requirements shows that man’s Creator is a God of unbounded compassion; even before man came into existence, God had already provided for all his needs. Moreover, the usefulness inherent

universe having been consciously planned as a purposive entity. A sign of the limitless extent of God’s power is the infinite variety of animal species all thriving on the same nutrients and water which

things because that is how God causes nature to function. If death in the universe is only a temporary phase that is because God wills it to be so. Man’s God is only One God. He alone is worthy of becoming

CALLING PEOPLE TO GODDawah work has been termed in the Quran ‘the call to God.’ In other words, dawah work aims at bringing people closer to their Creator and Sustainer. Calling people to God is telling them

for them on this earth is to become true believers in God. Man has only two ways of leading his life in this world: the self-oriented and the God-oriented. The self-oriented life is one in which all activities