behaviour of the honey bee is a symbolic lesson to man—'Live like a honey bee'. Extract what is good for you and leave what is unwanted. Do not waste your time in complaints and protests. Where there

person’s environment has this ‘nectar’. Man should develop the ability to take the ‘nectar’ and ignore what is not ‘nectar’. Living with a focussed mind is very important for every man and woman. Only a focussed

likely to have. One should think before one acts: what will be the consequences of my action? If the prospects appear good, one may carry on with what one is intending to do, otherwise one should rethink

hurdles which are likely to be strewn in his path, winning through to his final goal? He should consider what the social and political repercussions of his actions will be. Only if he is confident that his work

strange. What everyone is most convinced of, is their own existence. Despite this, in purely scientific terms everyone is a mystery. For man is not what he physically appears to be, but consists of what he calls

LIVINGWithout Religious Beliefs EVERYTHING and everyone is disappearing—Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. What an amazing happening, and well worth recording in my diary. But that will also suddenly disappear

published after her death. Even in times of peace, outstanding people appear on the world’s stage, show what brilliant stuff they are made of, then quickly disappear, not apparently by their own choice, but

death, an eternal existence, that we see some meaning in life. It is only after we give credence to what the prophets have told us of the Hereafter that we see everything fall into place, and have no further

disease and eventually death. Everyone wants to enjoy life on earth but no one has really been able to—what is the reason for this? It is because this world was not meant for a person to enjoy it. It has been

a better position to appreciate God’s glory and majesty compared to those of the previous times. Islam is not based on the quantity of rituals we perform, but on the level of realization of God that we

cause to distract us in wasting our time and potential in superficial entertainment and enjoyment. Islam is not based on the quantity of rituals we perform, but on the level of realization of God that we

with fear and stricken with awe, he left for home. Shivering and shaking, he told his wife, Khadija, what has happened. She implored him not to feel afraid and reassured him by saying, “By God, He (God) will

and you always give people their due.” When Muhammad, upon whom be peace, conveyed the message of Islam to his paternal uncle, Abu Talib, the latter did not accept it, saying, “I cannot abjure the religion

hates nothing more than being criticized. A man of principle, however, upholds the truth, no matter what price has to be paid. In doing so, he can become an object of scorn or be treated as an outcast from

earn the goodwill of the people, so he moulds himself into what they want him to be. A man of principle, however, upholds the truth, no matter what price has to be paid. To pass on to others something

These were the principles through which the Prophet of Islam gained that success which has been recognized by historians as the supreme success. In the end, I would like to repeat those ten principles