is the crucial test set for him by God. Without making this sacrifice, he cannot earn God’s favour. One who shirks making this sacrifice can never endear himself to God no matter how many exercises in self-prostration

achieves a certain superiority owes his position to God. To acknowledge the superiority of another, then, amounts to acknowledging the fairness of God’s distribution of His blessings. If one refuses to recognize

tantamount to challenging God’s sense of fair play. When one bows before the rights of another, one is not really bowing before another human being, but before God, for it is on account of God’s commandment that

because God had given him the kingdom? When Abraham said: ‘My Lord is He who gives life and causes to die,’ he said: ‘I too give life and cause death.’ Abraham said: ‘So surely God causes the sun to rise

rise from the east, then you make it rise from the west.’ Thus he who disbelieved was confounded; and God does not give guidance to unjust people. (2:258) We find another example of the argument based on

greatest.’ But when it set, he said: ‘O my people! Surely, I am done with what you associate with God.’ (6:75-78)

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month let him fast. But he who is ill or on a journey shall fast a similar number of days later on. “God desires your well-being, not your discomfort. He desires you to fast the whole month so that you may

the significance of fasting during the month in terms of giving thanks to God. The Prophet is recorded as having said that God rewards good deeds from ten fold to 700 fold. His reward for fasting, which

he is in need of God’s succour. In the evenings, after a whole day of fasting, people eat and drink their fill: that is when their hearts are flooded with a sense of gratitude to God for His having made

her share of the land, nor did she seek any help from the members of her family. She depended upon God alone: her sturdy independence was a shining example to us all. I have seen how she would get up early

therefore, incumbent upon the followers of Prophet Muhammad to carry on the work of calling people to God, dawah ilallah after him. This prophetic responsibility devolves upon the Muslim Ummah. Fasting prepares

responsibility of dawah ilallah, he adopts the communication of this message of calling people to God as his mission. Therefore, every year, one month is meant to prepare a believer to carry on this divine

unlimited reward by God. Spreading the message of the Quran is a divine mission. According to the Quran, it is akin to providing support to God as mentioned in this verse” “Believers, be God’s helpers.” (The

from God: he will give to others with the divine assurance that he will be repaid in full in the next world. In a society where there is no exploitation, feelings of mutual hatred and unconcern cannot

annual tax, or duty, in essence and spirit: it is recognition on the part of man of the share which God, and other men, have in his wealth. HAJJ The fifth pillar of Islam is pilgrimage (hajj). On this

gather together at Islam’s holy city, Mecca, and perform the various prescribed rituals in worship of God. These are symbolic representation of those qualities, which according to Islam, it is imperative that

on the contrary, the king’s interest lay in convincing people that they were God’s representatives, even that they were God’s offspring or that they were the children of the sun and moon. While today the

reference to Pharaoh. When Pharaoh confronted Moses he felt threatened by the spiritual powers of God’s messenger. So he assembled his people and sought to reaffirm his position in these words. “I am your

such occasions, God makes His will quite plain to us, albeit silently, that, in obedience to Him, we must bow to this Adam. Those who tread the path of the Angels will understand God’s wishes and will

pride of place to him. It is only people who act in this way who are the true and faithful servants of God. As such, they will find their eternal abode in heaven. Those who follow the example of Satan, and

‘Adam’ who has entered their lives, are rebels in God’s eyes. They will be cast into Hell along with Satan, to burn there for all time. Man being God’s servant must prostrate himself first and foremost

to ask God for peace, it means that we should adopt the path of peace, rather than confrontation, and that along with our peace-loving efforts we should seek succour from God. Your plea to God should not

not be for the destruction of the enemy. Rather, you should ask, ‘O God! Bless me so that, despite people’s enmity, I do not take to the path of violence and confrontation, but, instead, that I carry on

said that God grants to non-violence what he does not grant to violence. (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 2593 ; Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith No 4807) This is a way of expressing a law of nature that God has established