What is the reason for this negative outcome? The reason is that these social activists have linked the concept of social peace with social justice. They have developed the theory that there is no social

it is only when all the groups accept the scheme of peace, that there can actually be peace. Then, what is the mutually acceptable position for every section of the society? The best formula for peace is

working towards securing justice. And this, I said, was in accordance both with reason and with Islamic teachings. When the Prophet Muhammad entered into a peace treaty with the pagan Quraysh of Makkah

logically when Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of United Nations, declared during his visit to Islamabad that this resolution of the United Nations had now become irrelevant. However, apart from that

MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALITYTransient Joy or Eternal Pleasure WHAT is spirituality or rabbaniyat, to use the Quranic term? It is the elevation of man to a plane where the mind is focused on the higher

spiritual. He obeys the injunction of the Quran: Be devoted servants of God. THE QURAN 3: 79 To understand what constitutes materialism, imagine yourself looking at a palatial house or an attractive car and being

world, there is no great difference between comfort and deprivation. What one gains from material experiences is of lesser value than what one learns from deprivation. Tears of pain hold greater lessons than

would be termed: This interpretation of the expression has a direct bearing on the ordering of the Islamic calendar, with special reference to the four months out of the twelve designated as sacred by the

of the two wives of the Prophet, namely Khadijah and Aisha were notable for their contribution to Islam.

persist for weeks to months. (NASA Earth Observatory, October 4, 2021) A tradition of the Prophet of Islam states that the smoke will last for forty days: “There will be smoke (dukhan) that fills the space

death, non-violence is life. Both the Quran and the hadith have attached great importance to jihad. What is jihad? Jihad means struggle, to struggle one’s utmost. It must be appreciated at the outset that

jihad with the Quran would mean an ideological struggle to conquer peoples’ hearts and minds through Islam’s superior philosophy. In the light of this verse of the Quran, jihad in actual fact is another name