see or hear of this regularly, but everyone takes it as external news. No one applies it personally. What is the reason? The reason is the ‘now-based’ culture. This culture is so common that everyone, religious

years. This is why every person, sometime or the other, thinks: What will be my life after seventy years? What will happen to me after death? What will happen to me when I leave this world and go to another

strive to his utmost to prepare himself for the next world, so that in the Hereafter he can achieve what he could not in the present world. The question of life after death concerns everyone, consciously

me the merit of the Quran.” The next reason that has induced me to accept Islam is, that it is so eminently reasonable. In Islam, we haven’t got to believe in Thirty-nine Articles bristling with dogmas

woman’s part is a must before a marriage can be lawful in Islam. It is unlawful to marry a woman by force. There is no example in the history of Islam where a man has been allowed to force a woman into marriage

every age, there is a need not only for men but also for women to devote themselves to the mission of Islam. Ideally, they should be individuals who are willing in the way that Khadijah was, to involve themselves

helpers.THE IDEAL LIFE COMPANIONOne of Khadijah’s most significant contributions to the furtherance of Islam was the reassurance which she gave to the Prophet on the occasion of his receiving the first divine

orchard was a sizeable one with six hundred date palms and, at the time he donated it to the cause of Islam, his wife, Umm ad-Dahdah, was staying in it with her children. Nevertheless, having made his pledge

that Umm ad-Dahdah worked on the date orchard. There are many such incidents in the early phase of Islam (the exemplary phase) which show that certainly women were not confined indoors. They certainly went

enjoin the fixing of smaller dowries. In all such cases, Islam lays down guidelines rather than issuing strict commandments. That is why Islam has not totally forbidden any increase in the dowry, and it

acquire all sorts of comforts for themselves and their children. This is a mad race of materialism. But what is the end result of all this? Everyone feels that their hopes have not been met, that their desires

terrible despair, bitterness, tension and frustration. They feel they have been deprived of, or denied, what they wanted. Nobody at all seems content. This is how their days and nights pass—in this sorry predicament—till

death. In this world, if you face a shortage of something today, you can make efforts and acquire what you need tomorrow. But in the life after death, you will not have the chance of engaging in any actions

establishment rose to resist the threat. With Islam, the world was shown that no human being is endowed with supernatural powers: God alone is the source of all strength. Islam proclaimed to the world the equality

man’s understanding. Islam for its part declared that nature was not a subject of worship but rather was a subject for investigation and research (The Quran, 45:12-13). In this way, Islam had theoretically

part of God in this life: a distinction others would achieve only after death! With the advent of Islam, all these unnatural growths, distortions of and additions to the concept of God were rooted out,

all ideas concerning God were rectified and placed in the correct perspective. It was made plain by Islam that previous human conjectures which had led to the