spacious mansions of the new capital of British India, he expressed his reaction in the following words: “What a magnificent world they built to leave.” This is not only true of the British in India; it is true

takes us away from the world we have worked hard to construct for ourselves. We are then taken to what British author, Arthur Koestler called an “unknown country”. Life is a tragedy when seen without

is about adding to one’s knowledge and skills, while in reality it is about the skill of developing what is already there—capacities of which we are sometimes barely aware. Frequently, it is one’s initial

knowledge of the physiology of nervous cells. To what extent does will power modify the organism? How is the mind influenced by the state of the organs? In what manner can the organic and mental characteristics

contained in food, the climate, and the physiological and moral disciplines? We are very far from knowing what relations exist between skeleton, muscles, and organs, and mental and spiritual activities. We are

audacity could be augmented. What is the relative importance of intellectual, moral, and mystical activities? What is the significance of aesthetic and religious sense? What form of energy is responsible

The Life of the ProphetThe Prophet of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Muttalib, who was born in Makkah in 570 A.D. and died in Madinah in 632 A.D. received the prophethood at the age of forty. We

fast. As he takes Iftar, he thanks God with the following words of prayer used by the Prophet of Islam: “May the Lord be thanked and praised with Whose help I was able to fast, and now I am breaking the

The Life of the ProphetThe Prophet of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Muttalib, who was born in Makkah in 570 A.D. and died in Madinah in 632 A.D. received the prophethood at the age of forty. We

DIVORCE IN ISLAM Nature demands that men and women lead their lives together. The ideal way of leading such a life is, according to the shari’ah, within the bond of marriage. In Islam, marriage is both