invented chapters like it, and call on whom you can besides God, to help you.” (Hud, 11:13). In the pre-Islamic era, the Arabs excelled at poetry and tried to match the Quran. They were unable to do so. The matchless

They live lives fraught with contradictions. They yearn to find something without knowing what it is. A tension-free mind is one that can function positively in spite of a contradiction. People work, but

experience no inner satisfaction. They live by the formula: ‘Enjoy life!’ But they don’t know what life is or what real enjoyment is. It is a paradoxical situation. Everyone is living in this state of self-contradiction

opportunity. You have to activate your thinking capacity. You have to discover the reality. You have to read what is hidden in nature in an unwritten form. This is the only way to extract yourself from this psychological

laws of nature — and for such people there is nothing in this world but failure and destruction. What does walking on the path of patience mean? It means that in the face of difficult or unfavourable

remains unimpaired. He distinguishes the possible from the impossible, and begins his journey from what he knows to be possible. He does not hanker after immediate results. Rather, he adopts the gradual

face of loss. Instead, he keeps walking ahead with the future in mind. He accepts what the present gives him. As for what he might receive in the future, he adopts a wait-and-see approach. He keeps his desires

guidance for the person who is trying to know on his own what is unknowable. Only the Creator can know what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong. So one should submit to the divine will in

this? If you do not change now, you shall have to pay the price of being called backward.17.DOES ISLAM ALLOW MUSLIMS TO WISH NON-MUSLIMS ON THEIR FESTIVALS?Absolutely! Opportunities for engaging in interaction

Christianity among the Indian people. Later, Muslims ventured on to Indian soil and, with their advent, Islam began to spread here. But, leaving aside

been found in one form or the other since ancient times. Fourteen hundred years ago the Prophet of Islam held in Medina a threereligion conference—in modern terminology, a trialogue—to exchange views on

perform. The Hadith is a record of the Sunnah. Hadith provides the second fundamental source of Islam, giving us a full account of the life of the Prophet, and serving as a commentary on the Quran. The

is noteworthy, too, that the community that developed after the Prophet continued to demonstrate Islamic practices, like prayer in a practicable and imitable form. People of every subsequent age have found

Muslims are engaged in violent confrontation. However, almost without exception, these are not Islamic jihads, but, instead,