refrain from joining in this battle because of God’s express command never to shed the blood of one’s brother: it is unlawful.” Both replied: “Has not God enjoined us to fight till persecution ( fitna)

“We fought till fitna ceased. Religion became only for God, and now you want to fight so that fitna may return, and religion will no longer be for God.” (Fathul Bari, Kitab at-Tafsir, vol. 8, p.32, Kitab

al-Fitan Vol. 13, p. 49). From this account we learn that war against persecution as commanded by God was limited in its scope and of a particular nature. It had to be directed against those leaders

strives to live up to the highest code he is capable of understanding without attempting to analyse God’s motive, or describe His attributes?’ Things are as they are. We cannot change the hard reality: we

truth in no way alters, harms, or diminishes it. The truth is the truth. Notes 1. The Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe, p. 221. 2. A. Lunn, Revolt Against Reason, p 133. 3. Time And Its Mysteries

World, p. 112. 8. J.W.N. Sullivan, Limitations of Science, p. 175. 9. The Evidence of God, p. 179. 10. The Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe, edited by John Clover Monsma, (New York, 1958), pp. 73-74

to whom God’s message has to be conveyed. According to the Quran (85:3), Muslims are shahid (witness) and all human beings are mashhud (the witnessed). Our duty is to convey the message of God to all mankind

they engaged in peaceful dawah, then God Almighty had promised all kinds of help for this work. As the Quran says: ‘God will surely help him who helps His cause—God is indeed powerful and mighty.’ (22:40)

culture prevalent in his times had totally corrupted people’s minds. As a result of worshipping false gods for several centuries, they had allowed these deities to become a part of their unconscious minds

would retain its God-given nature intact. Abraham’s plan fructified and when Ishmael grew up, he married a virtuous lady of a Bedouin tribe. With this union, the generation desired by God began to take shape

things required for intellectual training-internal human nature and the outer universe created by God “with Truth.” (The Quran, 14:19)

From a study of the Quran it is clear that God first made a vast and perfect world—the world of Paradise. Then, He made humans and settled them there. God bestowed humans with complete freedom of choice

settled in Paradise on a general basis. But when they failed to live up to the established standard, God decided that the decision of Paradise was to be made on a selective basis—that is, only those people

settled in Paradise who fully lived up to the desired standard of self-discipline. For this purpose, God made a temporary world, a world in addition to eternal Paradise. This temporary world is Planet Earth

plants, water and fire. The concept of an exalted God existed as the prophets had taught man. But this concept came to be distorted to mean that God “was the Lord in heaven who had withdrawn from the

the immediate details of governing the world. This kind of high God, a hidden or idle, God— is one who has delegated all work on earth to these ‘nature spirits,’ which were the forces or personifications

da’wah from the Quran. They used to address their gatherings in these words: “Say there is no God but God and you will earn salvation.” But after the migration and the conquest of Makkah, the situation

nine of the Quran, titled ‘Repentance’, was revealed which conveyed a “declaration of immunity by God and His Messenger to the idolaters with whom you have made agreements.” After the revelation of this

sent a delegation of his companions to Makkah to make a public pronouncement of this declaration from God. From this example we find that when the dawah or the communication of the message was required in

culture prevalent in his times had totally corrupted people’s minds. As a result of worshipping false gods for several centuries, they had allowed these deities to become a part of their unconscious minds

would retain its God-given nature intact. Abraham’s plan fructified and when Ishmael grew up, he married a virtuous lady of a Bedouin tribe. With this union, the generation desired by God began to take shape

things required for intellectual training-internal human nature and the outer universe created by God “with Truth.” (The Quran, 14:19)

that the Muslims of India are paying for their religious degeneration. Although the religion sent by God is one, as far as Muslims’ real life is concerned, there are two types of ‘Islam’: one, the ‘Islam

The fear of God takes away from them any sense of superiority. Because of this, all their unnecessary conflicts automatically come to an end. In the face of the prejudice of others, their God-consciousness

people’s prejudices. And it brings violence to an end. In contrast, when Muslims become bereft of God- consciousness, they become driven by the ‘Islam of pride’, which leads them to imagine that they are

19.HOW CAN I CONVERSE WITH GOD WHEN IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE DOORS ARE CLOSEDwould say that those who are engaged in table talk cannot converse with God. If you are really serious about it, then you will

who had a clinic in Noida, India, but he recently passed away. I was quite worried and I prayed to God. When Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India, he had kept the portfolio of Kashmir to