realization of God reaches its ultimate limit, it manifests itself as fear of God. One who fears God becomes desirous of Paradise in its totality and along with this, he is fearful of his fate if God does not

that none is worthy of being served besides God and that Mohammad is His servant and Apostle; ritual prayer; the giving of alms; pilgrimage to the House of God, and the fast of Ramadhan.” (Sahih al-Bukhari

like pieces of land on which such an edifice can be raised. But, if that edifice is to be pleasing to God, it must be set firmly on those five pillars of Islamic tradition. Without this, the structure of Islam

or of society. According to Islam, all individuals should lead lives of worship of and devotion to God. The different observances which are the warp and weft of such an existence—faith, prayer, fasting

four holes at one stroke, he is said to have played a Master Stroke. Belief in God too is a kind of masterstroke. Belief in God affects a man’s whole being, bringing into play all of his forces. Although

bow to the norms of rectitude. Indeed, the conviction that man’s whole existence is in the grip of God, has a through-going influence on all of the individual’s thoughts, words and deeds. The true believer

People continue to exploit others in order to satisfy their unfulfilled wishes. But, when belief in God takes root in the mind, it turns the man into a complex-free soul, (called a peaceful or

discovers his total helplessness as compared to the all powerfulness of Almighty God. In this way he achieves the realization of God. This has been aptly described in these words attributed to the 4th caliph

Majesty of God and voluntarily surrenders himself before Him. This is no doubt the most difficult thing to do. When the philosophers and the theologians engaged in such discussions as ‘when God is almighty

Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me.” (Isaiah, 43:9-10) The Prophet was so deeply involved in his responsibility as a witness to the Truth that God had to say: “It may be that

defaulters by God on the charge of having failed to inform people of what they will have to face in the next, eternal life. It would be correct to assume that if Muslims do not proclaim the Truth that God intended

guidance We have revealed, after We have made them clear to people in the Scripture, will be rejected by God and so do others. But from those

this way, humans deviated from God’s creation plan, so much so that they created modern consumerist civilization, which is based in the fullest sense on the above formula. God waited for thousands of years

in God’s world, that by reforming themselves they should live in accordance with God’s creation plan, that they should use the opportunities of the world to become a person desired by God, whom God would

to get over, that they should make no delay and immediately set about trying to live in line with God’s creation plan. But people of all faiths are waiting for a saviour to come in the future. They all

society is an ideal human society. Waiting is also a Solution Awaiting the bounteous abundance of God is an excellent form of worship. (Sunan At Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 3571) Every individual and group repeatedly

special method of slaughter prescribed in Islam. The wielder of the knife, having taken the name of God, makes an incision in the jugular vein; leaving the other veins of the neck intact. This causes death

dawah which calls the people to one and the only God. the objective of the Quran is to make man aware of the Creation plan of God. That is, to tell man why God created this world; what the purpose is of settling

and then invites them to consider over the vast universe and it’s Creator. It further argues that God has not created them purposelessly. He has created them under a great purpose and, that is, to worship

the Arabic language, but in reality, it is in the language of nature, that is, the language in which God directly addressed all human beings at the time of Creation. This divine invocation of humanity is