because he solved some complex problems by more than one method! All those who are engaged in what they call ‘rights activism’ have a better choice to adopt; that is, 'opportunity activism'. This

legal rights. In our world, there is no place for complaints or protests. All those who are engaged in what they call ‘rights activism’ have a better choice to adopt — that is, ‘opportunity activism’. They

empowerment is self-empowerment. Choose self-empowerment, and you will certainly achieve more than what you had expected from others. Every man can emerge as a super-man, every woman, a super-woman, provided

GODALIKENESS of God is to be found in man, for is not the existence of man a proof of the existence of God? What is the nature of God? He is a live, self-sufficient Being, with a mind that is all-knowing, eyes that

certainly thinks, sees, hears, has a will, acts of his own volition and understands quite precisely what is meant by the ‘ego’ — the ‘I’. To believe in God is to have faith in a higher form of the ‘I’. Man’s

more extraordinary than believing in man. Once one has accepted one such extraordinary phenomenon, what is there to prevent one from accepting another?

drink, or a few sleepless nights, are enough to make our whole body tremble. But we are provided with what we need in this world. That is why we have forgotten how helpless we are, and remain ignorant of our

see that all this is nothing compared to what will come to pass. Comfort and selfrespect in this world make man complacent and proud. But if he were to know what was lying in store for him, he would be

started performing with an efficiency that they had never in their whole lives been able to muster. What inspires a man more than anything is to have a great mission before him. This arouses a man’s hidden

And we’re going to do it." It is an undeniable truth that what inspires a man more than anything is to have a great mission before him. That is what arouses a man’s hidden potential and makes him capable

sphere of Dawah work. The spreading of the Islamic message is not something which is going to happen automatically, and, if it is to come about, it will depend upon our grasping whatever opportunities

He commanded us to pray, pay the poor-due and fast. (Ja‘far then listed all the commandments of Islam). So we believe in him, and follow him in the religion that has come to him from God. We started worshipping

that there was no question of his handing over the Muslims to them. From Ja‘far’s words we can tell what a momentous impact the discovery of God had made on his life, and how his faith had permeated every

But, in spite of all such personal differences, they were united on the central cause of presenting Islam. “Unity in diversity,” the watchword of national integration, implies in practice the greatest sacrifice

with old keys. Our leaders in their frustration, have thought fit to identify certain “enemies of Islam” and to trace all their woes to them—as if they were the sole purveyors of these impregnable locks

towards these virtues? Fasting, by its very nature, is an act of patience. Patience and forbearance are what lead a person to the state of the heart which enables him to experience the feeling of nearness to

heartfelt and more precious. Real fasting is that which induces real dua. Patience and forbearance are what lead a person to the state of the heart which enables him to experience the feeling of nearness to

spiritually pure person is earning God’s pleasure. As far as sympathy is concerned, fasting teaches a man what basic human requirements are. It makes him aware of hunger and thirst. This understanding makes him

Turks— entered Arab territory. In 656 the Mongolian warrior Hulaku Khan sacked Baghdad. Later the Islamic empire received a further setback when, in 898, Andalusia fell to the Christians. The Fatimid dynasty

they were replaced by the Ottoman Turks in large stretches of Arab territory. Now the centre of Islamic government moved from Cairo to Constantinople; the official language became Turkish instead of Arabic