benefiting himself from others he should also give benefit to others. Through the events of nature, God shows symbolically what principles he has fixed for success and failure in life. One principle is that

principle applies to humans as well as to the rest of the universe created by God. BE HOPEFUL FOREVER Hope is a blessing of God. Even if some doors of life have been closed, there are other doors still open

can continue on one’s life’s journey. The Prophet of Islam once observed: “Hope is a blessing from God for my people. If there were no hope, no one would plant a tree and no mother would suckle her child

of prayer come to his lips according to the time. Similarly, when he wakes up, he starts praying to God to help him to make a better start to the coming day. In the same way when he meets someone, or eats

occasion – such prayers come to his lips as mean, O God, in this matter you will decide what is best for us. Dua means seeking from God and this seeking from God has no ending. It continues always. Dua is an

offers to God. One should, in fact, become oblivious of one’s surroundings, just as one would when totally engrossed in some captivating worldly pursuit, for prayer is a meeting between man and God. The various

the worshipper looks to his right and left and says the words: “Peace be upon you, and the mercy of God.” When he says this, he feels as if he is coming back from another world. He is returning to his old

terms. Submission to God in prayer should become a sign of submission in practical life. When the Prophet Shu‘ayb pointed this out to the people of Midian, and urged them to worship God and obey His commandments

Those who do not believe in God or do not regard God as the Living Doer of all things, would be prone to give any self-styled explanation for the above failure. However, faith in God demands that we understand

understand this whole event as being the result of God’s Sunnah and consider it a divine matter in the complete sense. If we look at it from this perspective and make the Quran our guide, then it is proved beyond

have not performed the real task for which God promised divine succour for the community. God promised divine succour on the condition that we help Him. Helping God means to engage ourselves in the divine

gratefulness there awaits the blessings of paradise. One who realises God, realises all other realities as well. The knowledge of God opens the door to all other knowledge. If moreover the individual becomes

reality, i.e. everything as it is in the full sense. This realisation enables him to pay the dues of God as well as of man. So far as reality is concerned, there is no difference between nature and the shari’ah

who supports us in the journey across the river of life and brings us to the other shore. Faith in God is everything for man. Without this conviction, man is nothing. All of us experience in our daily lives

to be a psychological proof of God’s existence. Every person definitely experiences this feeling. Every one of us finds within our own selves indisputable evidence for God’s existence. The inner being or

or nature of every person tells him or her, “You need God. Without God, your life cannot be complete. Without God, you cannot succeed.”

in one God; to believe in the fact that all power lies in the hand of one God alone; that He alone deserves to be worshipped. No act in the nature of worship is lawful unless directed towards God. It is

is God alone who fulfills all our needs. It is God alone who is behind the functioning of the entire universe. Superiority is the prerogative of the one and only God. No one enjoys real superiority in this

in one God. Moreover, ‘Polytheism’ does not mean a multiplicity in the absolute sense, as is commonly understood. No nation has ever been ‘polytheist’ in the sense that it believed in many gods of the

one ‘Supreme God’ at the top and his entourage of demi-gods spreading downwards from Him on the rungs of the divine ladder. Polytheism has always carried with it the concept of a ‘God of gods’. This shows

by the Prophet and as followed by him and his Companions.How does fasting help us to connect with God and pray to Him?Fasting helps to lessen a person’s dependence on material things and strengthen his

point between man and God. This meeting point is the last stage of helplessness, which makes you realize that God is all-powerful and man is helpless. This helps him to connect with God with sincere prayer

The Quran is a reward to His servants from God and fasting is acknowledgement of the reward. Through fasting man makes himself worthy of being thankful to God.

God’s ServantMan is God’s servant. God has created man with a plan, that is, to place him temporarily on earth in order to test him. Then those who pass this test will be rewarded, while those who fail

here is a test, and in all situations man must give a proper performance, as is required of him by God. The proper attitude for man is not to take to the paths of his desires, but to try to understand the

his life accordingly. Man may deviate from the divine plan by misusing the freedom given to him by God, but he cannot save himself from the consequences of this deviation.