creator has endowed His creature, man, with extraordinary capabilities. Instead, he should press his God-given capabilities into service to reconstruct his life. It is quite possible that the very circumstances

The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2020, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan. God increases His guidance to those who follow guidance. The Quran 19: 76

will be recompensed for their deeds. Prof Farida Khanam This beautiful world of nature created by God is well on its way to being ruined by man. Widespread violence, ecological disturbance and global warming

ignoring their own. But the reward of God will be reserved for those who give others what is due to them, and who do no wrong to their neighbours; who are not selfish in their dealings with others, but

not think of their own interest when the truth is at stake; who lose themselves in the greatness of God. People are playing with fire but have no idea of the consequences of their deeds. They are careering

who want to fashion, in the world created by God, a world of their own choice— which is not permissible in the eyes of the Almighty. Angelic or Satanic God’s faithful servants act on angelic promptings

lives in this world as a true seeker of Paradise, will be selected by God to be lodged in eternal Paradise. The Quran tells us that God has created man in the best of moulds (95:4). One aspect of this is

many forms of God’s creation such as the stars, the planets, the sun, the moon, the trees, the animals, etc. but none of these are blessed with a sense of pleasure. On the one hand, God has given man a

for your welfare and full of kindness and mercy towards the believers. But if they turn away, say, ‘God suffices me: there is no deity but He: in Him I have put my trust. He is the Lord of the Glorious Throne

9:128-129) In these verses, the Prophet emerges in his struggle for Islam as one having full confidence in God the Almighty. The key to all treasure lies with Him. The Prophet stands on the firm ground of this

should rest on one God alone and that he should devote himself to the service of Truth, free from all fears or the pressures of expediency. We are told in this verse that the messenger of God was extremely

was: My God, show me the truth in the form of the truth and grant that we may adhere to it, and O my God, show me falsehood in the form of falsehood and grant me protection from it, and O God, show us

can never understand their innate value. The Prophet was moved at this. He spontaneously called upon God to ask Him to grant him the blessing of being able to see the reality, so that he might understand

that God created all human beings with the same nature. “And follow the nature [constitution] as made by God, that nature in which He has created mankind. There is no altering the creation of God.” (The

according to nature.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 1385) There is another Hadith to this effect: “God has created human beings with an upright nature.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 2865) This shows that all

helplessness which leads him to pray to and seek help from God.18.SHOULD WE FOLLOW HUMANITY OR GOD?These are both different issues. We believe in God because He is the Creator. Humanity is not a creator; it

the Kabah, the most sacred place for Muslims built by the Prophet Abraham as the House of the One God had become, after a period of about two thousand years, a house where more than three hundred idols

prayer taking the great name of God. The general kind of prayer is just the uttering of some words, but prayer taking the great name of God is super prayer. Such prayer moves God Himself. According to a hadith

hadith the prayer of the oppressed one goes straight to heaven. The gates of heaven are opened for it. God Almighty says about the prayer of such a person, “By My honour, I will certainly fulfil his prayer