model for making the right choice is provided by what the angels did at the dawn of creation. In contrast, making the wrong choice is epitomized by what Satan did. When the angels were told to bow down

law of nature, there are also some things that Muslims have not been given. What Muslims have done is that they have made what they do not have the centre-point of their thinking, while ignoring all the

and obsessing about the 1% they have not received shapes their thoughts and actions. It is against what God desires of us. The greatest price that people who are engrossed in this will have to pay in terms

Existence MEDICINES are usually accompanied by leaflets explaining what illnesses they are designed to cure, how they should be used and what their basic formulae are. But, it is a tragedy that man is born

born into the world in such a condition that he knows neither what he is nor why he has been put here. No convenient handbook accompanies him; neither are there any signboards fixed to the summits of the

can he count the innumerable treasures it contains. What is all this and why is it there? Where did this world start from and where will it all end? What is the purpose of this existence? He finds himself

WHAT IS DEATHTowards the Hereafter OF ALL THE STAGES through which a person will have to pass, death is the most certain. Everyone who is alive now will be dead sometime in the future. One day the eyes

country. The strangest and most mysterious event of our lives is death. Everyone is anxious to know what will become of them after death. The American evangelist, Billy Graham, has written a book called

age, when one’s strength is on the wane, one realizes the imminence of death; one is moved to wonder what lies in store for one in the Hereafter; one searches for a ray of hope which can illuminate the world

shone forth momentarily, then disappeared from the scene. Then in the seventh century AD, when the Islamic revolution had put an end to the age of superstition, many favourable opportunities presented themselves

scale. An environment conducive to free enquiry emerged only after the monotheistic revolution of Islam. The whole atmosphere was instantly changed by it, paving the way for the investigation work to go

something unexpected became a reality. Islamic Literature in the Modern Idiom Professor Muhammad Mujeeb (1985) was one of the three pillars of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. The others were Dr. Zakir

he lives not for himself but for a higher purpose. What matters to him is principle, not profit. He cares not whether he himself wins or loses; what is of importance to him is that his ideal should be

detached himself from his own person and pinned his flag to the needs of humanity as a whole. What matters to a history-making person is principle, not profit. In order to become a history-making

complain, but it is impossible to change the situation. So he opts for the possible and leaves out what is impossible. By adopting this formula he is able to become a master of the situation. It is people

perfect India rising out of this chaos and strife, glorious and invincible, with Vedanta brain and Islam body. (Letters of Swami Vivekananda, p. 380). To put it quite plainly, this would mean having a Hindu

patriotic Muslim prime minister deal with them with greater insight and efficiency? Let us look at what India’s most serious problems are, given its central position in a huge chain of Muslim countries

Muslim should lead his life in this world in a state of purification of the feelings and the soul. What is recited during prayer consists either of verses from the Quran or dhikr, remembrance of God, and

the worshipper to renounce his life of ignorance and heedlessness in favour of a life inspired by Islamic moral values. Throughout the prayer (namaz) the phrase, ‘Allah-o-Akbar’, ‘God is great,’ is repeated