Hereafter. All of this demands enormous fortitude, and, without it, no one can travel along the path of Islam. The annual month-long period of fasting builds up the strength of character which is essential, if

the Hereafter plants from this nursery are selected for being settled in Paradise. According to Islam, in the pre-death period, the Creator has bestowed complete freedom to a person. This freedom is meant

character and manly attributes. It was the people selected from this group who, after their acceptance of Islam, came to be known in history as the companions of the Prophet. The other special divine succour is

faith, that people generally have is wrong. They think that the mere recitation of the kalimah (Islamic creed) gives a person iman. This is a wrong concept. Iman is another name for discovery of the truth

102.BELIEF IN ANGELS IS A PART OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION. MAN CAN DISCOVER GOD BY OBSERVING CREATIONS, BUT HOW CAN HE DISCOVER ANGELS?The quantum theory made inferential argument as valid as direct argument

unaware of the demands of others. Tolerance is a noble virtue. It has been variously referred to in Islam, for instance, gentleness, softening of the heart, and being kind to all creatures. When an individual

truly a reminder in this for those who possess understanding. Anyone whose heart God has opened up to Islam possesses a light from his Lord. But woe betide those whose hearts have been hardened against the

is the greatest means of reform for man in this world. According to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam said: “Remember death often.” (Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 4258) But it is strange that death is the

There was a similar diversion of negative feeling when caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab dismissed the Islamic General Khalid ibn al-Walid. It was a rude

the Prophet in his last days, arranged in the form still extant today.8.DOES SPIRITUALITY EXIST IN ISLAM?Yes. Our world is a dual world – a world of ‘material things’, and a world of ‘inner meanings’. When