the universe, all things get what they require, but man is the only creature in the world who does not always get what he wants. The rest of the universe is evil-free, but man, exceptionally, is afflicted

are there for the rest of the creation, with the only difference that the rest of the universe gets what it desires in the world of ‘today’, while a man will get all that he wishes in the ‘tomorrow’ (the

WHAT IS PARADISE?to high levels of spirituality, they will have experience of a superior order. They will have for company all the noble souls of heavenly society. They will attain divine achievements

described thus in a tradition: “Paradise is what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has conceived of.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No: 4779) WHAT IS PARADISE? The first category of people of

entire life revolves around Him. One’s thoughts and desires are focused on Him alone. One thinks about what pleases and displeases God when one speaks. One limits one’s movements to the bounds that God has

utterances will not be based on the promptings of their own selves. They consider what will be acceptable to God and what will be cast aside

No. 6481) This does not mean that people should stop speaking and become totally silent. Rather, what it actually means is that one should become silent and think and only then should one speak. We should

of speaking less and keeping silent more, and of speaking only after we have properly thought about what we are going to say. This we can do by developing the habit of consciously engaging in this practice

respond in the same way when we are faced with extraordinary or challenging situations. Ordinarily, what most people do is that when they are faced with a situation, they react immediately and unthinkingly

once preached his message to a certain tribe, but they refused to accept it. Still, one can tell from what one of their number, Maysirah ibn Masruq al- ’Abbasi, had to say, that the Prophet’s words had made

agree with me, and one cannot go against one’s tribe.”40 That was how much a tribe meant to a person. What a grave matter it must have been, then, to be expelled from one’s tribe. The Prophet now had nowhere

to the Thaqif tribe in the hope that they would grant him asylum and support.”41 But one can tell what savage treatment the Prophet received at their hands from this prayer that he made on his return to

once preached his message to a certain tribe, but they refused to accept it. Still, one can tell from what one of their number, Maysirah ibn Masruq al- ’Abbasi, had to say, that the Prophet’s words had made

agree with me, and one cannot go against one’s tribe.”40 That was how much a tribe meant to a person. What a grave matter it must have been, then, to be expelled from one’s tribe. The Prophet now had nowhere

to the Thaqif tribe in the hope that they would grant him asylum and support.”41 But one can tell what savage treatment the Prophet received at their hands from this prayer that he made on his return to

little time to think about life. Still, sometimes he was forced to wonder: what is this world? what is its purpose? what are we, and what are we doing here? He said that he felt convinced that there were powers

nothing to fall back on; in this world they already feel something of that helplessness, as a warning of what is to come. In the life after death, terrible ordeals await those who have denied God. In this world

explanation.’ Physicists, of course, are right in saying that they have discovered the laws of nature, but what they have discovered is not, in essence, the answer to the problems for whose solution religion has

before us. What modern science tells us is only an elaboration upon, rather than an explanation of reality. The entire body of modern scientific enquiry is concerned only with the question: ‘What is

brainstorm activates the dormant cells of the mind, and the result is that one becomes capable of doing what one could not have accomplished in a normal situation. The will, if it is strong, can unfold one’s

Independence he was appointed as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution. What is imperative in such a situation is that one who faces such adversity should not become demoralized

with no one else between you and the ruler. (Jaami al-Uloom wa al-Hikam, Vol. 1, p. 236) Similarly, Islam differentiates between individual and congregational action. In individual action, only one’s own