far and beyond all craving for profit. In Mohammad, son of Abdullah, (peace and God’s blessings be upon him) God found a pure soul, untarnished by self-interest, and totally uncompromising on the question

the discharge of his duties, and one who would never stoop to idolatrous beliefs. Most important, God had found in this desert Arab a genuine seeker after the truth. It could only be such as he who would

first forty years of his life that God chose him as His final Prophet for all mankind. During the ensuing twenty-three years of his prophethood, Mohammad proved that God’s trust in him had not been misplaced

been granted to him for a certain time and for a specific reason: that he may be put to the test. God wishes to see who make good use of their freedom, so that He may reward such people. Those who are

future world of heaven are being selected in this world. Those who obey God, despite their freedom, and voluntarily impose the will of God upon themselves, are deserving of paradise. During the period of man’s

man has run its course, however, only the righteous will be fit to inherit the evergreen world of God. Others will be denied entrance into heaven; they will be cast into a world of everlasting anguish

for material success in this world, while others lead God-fearing lives, make the Hereafter their goal and strive to build their own personality. God-oriented personalities are destined to achieve an eternal

zar tu khuda nahin va lekin bakhuda; Sattaru-o-uyub wa qaziul-haajaati (O Money, you are not God but, by God, you can hide all shortcomings, all lackings and you can fulfil all needs.)

he thinks every good thing to be the word of God. He takes everything, every good word, as if it were his very own. This thinking of a believer, or a God-oriented person, makes him limitless. He continues

anything else to information. The more information an individual has, the greater is his success. The God-oriented person keeps all the windows of his mind open. As such it becomes possible for him to go on

such thinking, he becomes like one who is ready to accept any good thing regardless of the source. A God-oriented person’s thinking is totally that of a student. New things, new information, new knowledge

pledges?” Abu Sufyan: “No.” Emperor Heraclius: “If he does not lie to man, then how will he lie to God Almighty?” This dialogue shows the sheer strength of a person’s character. Indeed, you are known to

more than one hundred thousand prophets or messengers to every group of people. All the messengers of God enjoy the same equal status. There is a verse in the Quran to this effect. In the chapter Al-Baqarah

believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and [so do] believers. They all believe in God and His angels, His scriptures, and His messengers. They say, ‘We do not differentiate between any

commands you to do foul deeds. But God promises His forgiveness and His bounty. God is bountiful and all knowing. He grants wisdom to whom He will; and whoever is granted wisdom has indeed been granted

utterly defenseless. The only man to have honour and success in the Hereafter will be one who has taken God’s religion to himself while still in the land of the living. Beyond the grave, it is too late; he who

has adopted a godless religion will be faced with eternal doom in the after-life. The religion of God is the true, natural religion to adopt. The truth of this suddenly becomes plain in moments of crisis

downwards to his doom, he forgets all else and turns to God. It is experiences of this nature which prove that the only true religion is the religion of God, the one on which a man should base his entire life

God and yet be arrogant and supercilious to his fellow men. He will not, of course, prostrate himself before them, nor will he address the words “You are great” to another person, as he would to God. But

parallel with his self-prostration before his Maker. The submission which he expresses in prayer to God becomes a reality in terms of his observance of others’ rights. The very act of facing in the correct

principled stand in his everyday dealings. At prayer in the mosque, he is the epitome of servitude to God: outside the mosque, he is the perfect character—humble in demeanour, morally upright, and kind considerate

grateful to himself. His wealth must be given to the needy in the spirit of its being a trust from God which he is making over to the genuine titleholders. He should feed others so that he himself is fed

fed in the Hereafter, and he should give to others so that he himself is not denied succour by God in the next world. Zakat is a symbol of one’s obligation to recognize the rights of others and to be in

foremost, makes it plain to people that their entire ‘possessions’ are gifts of God, and, secondly, dissuades the servants of God from living in society as unfeeling and selfish creatures. Indeed, throughout

which, as a book of revelation was the forerunner of the Quran. Initially, the Bible was the word of God, but in later years it suffered from human interpolations, with the result that many internal contradictions

Son of God.” (Mark. 1:1) According to one chapter of the New Testament, Jesus was the son of a person named Joseph, while another chapter of this very New Testament says he was the son of God. Undoubtedly

Undoubtedly, in its original form, the Injil was the Word of God and free of all inconsistencies. It was only