verses of the Quran revealed in Makkah, God commanded the believers to follow the Prophet. For instance, in chapter, 7, God commands: Say, ‘People, I am God’s Messenger to you all, He has sovereignty

over the heavens and the earth. There is no god but Him. He ordains life and death, so believe in God and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet who believes in God and His words. Follow him so that you may

many verses of the Quran revealed in Makkah, God commanded the believers to follow the Prophet. For instance, in chapter, 7, God commands: Say, ‘People, I am God’s Messenger to you all, He has sovereignty

over the heavens and the earth. There is no god but Him. He ordains life and death, so believe in God and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet who believes in God and His words. Follow him so that you may

time and energy. Adopt the way of adjustment, and ensure your success.Being God-ConsciousJim Corbett (1875-1955) was a legendary British hunter. He authored a famous book Man-Eaters of Kumaon. It details

” (The Mukhtesar Man-eater) The combination of these two sentiments, your love for God and your realization of God’s greatness, manifests in a unique form. All the words of the dictionary fall short of

true believer for God. There is a verse in the chapter Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War) of the Quran in this regard: True believers are those whose hearts tremble with awe at the mention of God. (8:2) Both the

seas added to it, the words of God would not be exhausted.” (31:27). While studying this in the Quran, your heart trembles with tempestuous feeling. You think that if God in His Omnipotence is at one extreme

extreme. At that time you exclaim with tears in your eyes: “O God, just as Your attributes will never come to an end, so also will the words of God never be exhausted. In the same vein, my helplessness with

a person forms a picture of the final extent of his helplessness as compared to the omnipotence of God. This is the acme of human consciousness, the experience of which no creature other than a human being

should begin by saying, ‘In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful,’ and when he finishes his food the he should say Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God). He should utter the words appropriate

the believer begins his eating and drinking in the name of God and ends his eating and drinking in the name of God. It is his way of thanking God and acknowledging His blessings. When some evil idea creeps

be with Satan and the subjects of the Most Beneficent God will be with God. Nobody worships Satan per se, but the worshipper of anybody other than God is, in fact, indirectly the worshipper of Satan. Modern

Hereafter person’s entire being will bear witness to his deeds. In everyone’s nature, the concept of God exists from birth in the conscious mind. Every human being from his birth has this inclination to accept

It is as it were the covenant of nature. All human beings are bound by this covenant of nature to God. When a person is

instance, if you say that the goal of Muslims is calling people to God, and that hence what Muslims should do is to bear witness for God’s religion before all mankind, it would be an instance of academic

persecution and the replacing of it with an age of religious freedom in order to smooth the path for God’s servants to follow His religion. This most significant transformation was to take place as part of

pray in advance to God: “Lord, do not lay on us the burden you laid on those before us. Lord, do not charge us with more than we can bear.” (2:286) This prayer was revealed by God Himself for the benefit

divine ordinance announced in the form of a prayer to be recited by the companions. This means that God, who is the controller of history, had decreed a change in this coercive political system of ancient

of discovery. Now, he discovers his relationship with God. He grasps the reality that he is not free but is under the command of God. He realizes that the purpose of creating a human being in this world

compulsion to do so. All things in this world are subjected to God. The stars and planets in space revolve in their orbits totally under the command of God. The trees, the rivers, the mountains— all these things

things strictly follow the plan laid down for them by God. On a parallel with this, the animals follow the pattern determined for them by their instincts. They are totally governed by their instincts. In this

to strive to discover the signs of God hidden in nature and to acknowledge God at the elevated level of God-realization. In this way, he brings into existence a Godly or divine civilization. In the present

freedom in this present world, he establishes a civilization which is non-spiritual in nature. But God wants a spiritual civilization: very soon this world will come to an end and will be replaced by a

would be possible, according to God’s desired plan, to bring a high level of spiritual civilization into existence. Here it would be possible for an elevated level of God-realization to be attained. According