purpose. Now power lies in peace alone. Such is the state of affairs that the commands of war in Islam require a reapplication. In days gone by, kingship, whereby the ruler unilaterally possessed absolute

ever-accelerating pace) in modern science and technology. Modern science is wholly the gift of the Islamic revolution – directly in its initial stages, and indirectly in its later stages. This truth has

people. This was a major social problem. For its solution the Prophet adopted a strategy known in Islamic history as ‘fraternizing.’ The form it took was a bond of brotherhood

agreement was reached which came to be known as the Treaty of Hudaybiya. In this, the Prophet of Islam unilaterally accepted all the conditions of the Makkan leaders. However, at the Prophet’s suggestion

had to be voluntary, for ensuring submission by force would have failed to achieve the aim of the Islamic Caliphate. In ancient Arabia over the centuries, the Quraysh had come to acquire the position of

obstacles and hurdles are removed, the onward journey can never he made. But the Sunnah of the Prophet of Islam is totally different. That is, one should refrain from tackling difficulties by confrontational methods

THE CONCEPT OF INCARNATIONThe concept of unity (wahdat) does not exist between God and man, but in Islam the concept of the nearness between God and man is valid in the perfect sense: “Prostrate yourself

SUNNI BOOKS OF HADITH MORE AUTHENTIC THAN SHIA BOOKS OF HADITH?In the personal library of every Islamic scholar and academic (from any school of thought), all the books of Hadith exist. It is not that

What is maturity? Maturity is the ability to live with things we cannot change.

gave him a source of motivation. His failure motivated him to accomplish more and more to obtain what he had failed to achieve on the university campus. It was this psyche of Bill Gates that made him

later years. In life, success and failure are relative. The message of success is: you have achieved what you wanted to achieve. This kind of thought paralyses the mind. It leads to intellectual stagnation