Likeness of God is to be found in man, even as the existence of man is 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? A Likeness of Prophethood “This is London, here is

positive aspects. Muslims today have coined a new term, that is, Islamophobia. This means that the West has wrongly come to regard Islam as danger to non-Muslims. This, however, is not actually the case

best-seller The Fate of the Earth, man is now in a position to destroy life on earth many times over. What, basically, are these weapons? Like any other weapon, they are just a misuse of the resources of nature

reason is that nature has no freedom. Man, on the other hand, is free to act as he pleases. The fact is what philosophers call a ‘problem of evil’ is simply a misuse of human freedom. Modern man takes enormous

to have more than one wife. A second, third or fourth wife would be obtained only by force. But in Islam, a forced marriage is not considered lawful. According to the shari’ah the willingness of the bride-to-be

Wisdom lies in knowing what is possible and what is not possible in terms of the circumstances.

(HILYAT AL-AULIYA) Reject reproof and you reject what is good Adi ibn Hatim once said: “What is acceptable to you today, was abhorrent to us yesterday; and what is abhorrent to you now will become acceptable

generations. You will be following the true path so long as you continue to recognize what is abhorrent and refrain from rejecting what is acceptable; and so long as a learned man can stand up amongst you to admonish

divine worship in a spirit of great serenity. Peace is thus central to the life of the believer. Islam is a religion of peace. And peace is a universal law of nature. That is because God loves the condition

ToleranceTolerance is a noble humanitarian and Islamic virtue. Its practice means making concessions to others. Intolerance, on the other hand, means showing a self- centered unconcern for the

(41:33) is called dawah ilallah. Calling people to God means communicating God’s message—Quran and Islam—to all mankind. The call to God aims at bringing people closer to their Creator and Sustainer, inviting

comprises excerpts from the Quran, arranged under relevant headings. It provides an introduction to Islam which is derived directly from the original, revealed source. No interpretation or commentary has