seeker by birth. These questions lurk in everyone’s mind: Who am I? What is the purpose of my life? What is the reality of life and death? What is the secret of man’s success and failure? etc. According to the

or to understand their needs and minds and address them in such a way that they are able to grasp what is being said to them. Those parents who fail to do this have nothing but complaints about the behaviour

prepare themselves for a more sensitive and complex approach. Indeed they must prepare themselves in what may be termed as ‘rational spirituality’. Memories Of the two kinds of memories good and bad

Wishing to have more than what you deserve is as good as disqualifying yourself from what you rightfully deserve.

to succeed in life, one must do what Kailash Chand did. One should put aside all thoughts about oneself and relentlessly pursue one’s goal. Personal considerations are what people give importance to but

town which will swallow other towns. It is called Yathrib, and that is Madinah”. (Sahih al-Bukhari) What is said in this Hadith is not about the superiority of the Prophet or of the city of Madinah. Rather

from him, such a person becomes eligible for God’s special assistance. God gives him much more than what other people have wrongly taken away from him. A person who displays positive behaviour in the

people truly believe in the sphere of the unseen, but people want to prove their belief in terms of what can be seen. Thus the true believer is one who sees the world of eternity within the present world

him! Accept, Introspect, Make Amends. There are different kinds of bad deeds, but no matter what kind of bad deed you have committed, after each one you should feel repentant and try to erase the

unnatural freedom, similarly a woman in the present Muslim society has been largely denied rights that Islam has given her, for instance, a woman becoming a victim of a man’s maltreatment or her failing to receive

education prevalent at that time. It is at this point—the point of education—that we should begin a new Islamic life. If Muslims were to concentrate on this, and strive towards the goal of one hundred percent

DIVISION OF LABOR Islam has assigned separate spheres to men and women, the former having the management of all non-domestic, external matters, and the latter being completely in charge of the home. The

difficult situations and can give truly helpful advice in an unemotional and coolly detached way. In Islamic history, there are many examples of women who have helped their husbands when faced with critical

accepted appellation was probably passed on to him by Palestinian Christians who had come under Islamic rule. When the Bible was translated into Greek, the word became “Paraclete”.NOTESQuran, 36:30. 2

Ambassadors of Islam Umm Haram bint Milhan, a Sahabiya, (a companion of the Prophet) was married to Ubadah ibn as-Samit Ansari. Along with her husband she undertook several trips to foreign countries