fulfilled.” The interviewer asked Lata Mangeshkar if God were to ask her what would be her greatest desire at this stage of her life, what her reply would be? She promptly said: ‘I would like to leave this world

desire, but the absence of the fulfilment of desire indicates a great and important reality. It is that what man wants to find in the pre- death period, has been placed by God in the post-death period. In such

while the one who fails to follow it, will never succeed. If we analyze what happened, we would realize that whatever happened was what was going to happen; there was nothing else that could have happened

otherwise one cannot attain any worthwhile goal by deviating from laws of nature and realistic thinking.12.WHAT CAN I DO TO BRING VALUE TO THIS WORLD?There is a very illustrative lesson from the life of George

while the one who fails to follow it, will never succeed. If we analyze what happened, we would realize that whatever happened was what was going to happen; there was nothing else that could have happened

otherwise one cannot attain any worthwhile goal by deviating from laws of nature and realistic thinking.12.WHAT CAN I DO TO BRING VALUE TO THIS WORLD?There is a very illustrative lesson from the life of George

was the signing of the Hudaybiyya peace treaty, which took place in 6 A.H., between the Prophet of Islam and the idolaters. This peace treaty ostensibly signalled the political defeat of the Muslims. But

that which is result-oriented. Fighting to die for honour and prestige is not a desirable act in Islam. If the enemy’s numbers are so great as to turn the tide of battle in their favour, hostilities should

entitled, “The Revolution of the Prophet.”) This status-quoism abounds in the life of the Prophet of Islam, to the extent that some matters were left in their existing state, although the Prophet knew fully

confrontations to an end unilaterally and engage all our efforts in the positive construction of Islam and Muslims. There is simply no other path to success for present-day Muslims. The Hudaybiya principle

‘balance’ as it would be expressed in Arabic) and link it with ‘iron’ to support his argument that the Islamic mission was to establish justice by using the power of iron (i.e. weaponry), he would not be right

efforts to dawah work. All the best results will follow. When, his life under threat, the Prophet of Islam left his native Makkah along with 200 of his Companions, the Makkan leaders having made their lives