understandable. The Road to God Man is a creature and God is the Creator. Every creature must seek the blessings of his Creator. Every man and woman must proceed towards this goal destined by God. This is laid down

Al-Dhariyat (Scattering Winds). The translation of this verse is as follows: Therefore hasten to God; truly, I am sent by Him to give you clear warning. (51:50) It is an established fact that every person

Since God is immortal, He must also be absolute, for absoluteness is the greatest attribute of immortality. The one cannot be found without the other. This world is a manifestation of God’s attributes

complete manifestation of a perfect and infinite God would itself be perfect and infinite. Another world must be awaiting us. This incomplete manifestation of God’s attributes requires a sequel for its fulfillment

eternal world of God in which His attributes will appear in all their perfection. It will be free of all the defects we experience in the world about us. Paradise is evidence of God’s absolute power to

objectivity in thinking. The Quran therefore tells us to ignore all such negativity, and put one’s trust in God alone. During the life of the Prophet Muhammad, many people turned against Islam and began to conspire

companions in the Quran was that they should trust in God (33:48). That is, they must ignore all conspiracies and animosity. They should only put their trust in God and continue with their positive activities.

This was a very important piece of guidance. Through it, God turned Muslims away from negative thinking

praying is to learn some words of prayer by rote and keep repeating them as a ritual in order to ask God to grant us the best of this world and the best of the next world. Another more effective way of praying

sympathetically. If some servant of God makes a supplication such as: “O God may You also treat me similarly sympathetically in spite of my having committed many wrongs. O God, ignore those errors of mine and

mercifully with me, a helpless person.” For one who prays in such a manner, it is quite possible that God will accept his entreaties and forgive him.

modesty in a scientific or learned person. Similarly one who has fear of God, or taqwa, will see his affairs in relation to God, the Almighty. Here too, the same principle applies with greater force. When

than others. But when one sees oneself in relation to God, everyone becomes small, in relation to God. No one is great. In this way the belief of a God-fearing man or woman makes him or her a balanced person

god. Every human being needs someone to turn to, someone to whom he can dedicate the finest feelings he has to offer. On August 15, 1947, the Union Jack was lowered from Indian government buildings and

obeisance to freedom; for that was what they had made their god. Now that they had attained freedom; it was as though they had actually found God. Their joy knew no bounds, for they had devoted the better

this offering to anyone other than God, one is indulging in polytheism and in the words of the Quran, one is doing a “great wrong.” This paying of homage to false gods is what the Quran calls zulm. The

hereafter, only the humble reverence that man has for God in this life can be of any avail in his final salvation. True worship means fearing God in such a manner that He comes to dominate one’s thoughts

in and monitor of all one’s affairs. Whatever is done then is for the sake of God, for the love of God, out of fear of God, and for no other. In short, man’s total concern becomes for life in the world

I want them to feed Me—it is God who is the great Sustainer, the Mighty One, the Invincible. (51: 56-58) According to the commentators of the Quran, here worship (ibadat) means marefat. What is marefat

marefat? Marefat means realization of God through contemplation. When one realizes God, he falls into a great sense of awe, and hamd is only an expression of this kind of deep feeling towards the Lord of the

praise is due to God, the Lord of the Universe, the Beneficent, the Merciful. (1:1-2) These two verses represent the gist of the Quranic message. It means that man should acknowledge God as the Creator,

verse: “Who will give a generous loan to God? He will pay him back two-fold and he shall receive a rich reward,”98 he asked the Prophet, “O Messenger of God, does God want a loan from us?” When the Prophet

replied in the affirmative, Abu ad-Dahdah took him by the hand, and said, “I hereby lend my orchard to God.” Abu ad-Dahdah’s orchard was a sizeable one with six hundred date palms and, at the time he donated

her that she would have to leave, as it had been loaned to God. Umm ad-Dahdah’s reaction was that he had made a good bargain. That is, that God would reward him many times over in the hereafter. So saying