he started his preaching mission in Makkah in the year A.D. 609. When he presented the message of Islam before the disbelievers of Makkah, they proudly pointed out that they were already involved in great

how to live in accordance with the will of God. It is this way of life, which is known in Islam as the sunnah, or path, of the prophets. It covers every aspect of life, from personal matters to social

their responsibilities to God are. By God, if the Lord guides just one of them through you to Islam, then that will be better for you than a herd of red camels.” Missionary activity was such a prominent

gruelling afflictions. It is only natural that those who acknowledge the favour of the Prophet of Islam should express their gratitude to him. The peace and blessings, which Muslims invoke upon their Prophet

the Quran and recite it to the people. For this reason the Companions who went to Madinah to preach Islam were called muqris—reciters of the Quran. In a modern environment, this would be nothing extraordinary

that only killing could put an end to killing, and these were considered highly eloquent in pre-Islamic days. ‘To kill some is to give life to the whole,’ one of them went. ‘Kill more, so that there should

in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, etc. In later times the written Quran became the main source of Islamic learning. But one danger was still lurking. In sacred books even minor differences can become a source

characterized by an enormous vacuum. You would be led to think that throughout almost the whole of Islamic history there was neither a proper and complete conception of the deen nor any

role God desired the Ark to play. God in His foreknowledge knew that Turkey would, in future, be an Islamic country. God knew that Turkey was a country which enjoyed the position of a junction between the

Nile, which Europe did not discover till the 19th century. All these activities were going on in Islam when Europe believed that the earth was flat. Ptolemy, the well-known Greek astronomer of the 2nd