delights: one at the time of breaking the fast and the other at the time of meeting with his Lord God most High.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 1151) Fasting, and the breaking of the fast; both are different

forbidden by God and live life as a ‘fasting’ person. The very purpose of life is the ‘testing’ of man. Fasting is a semblance of this test. This worldly life is only to do good deeds as enjoined by God, to follow

has shown and refrain from all that He has prohibited. For this conscientious life the promise of God is boundless rewards in the Hereafter; rewards which are not exposed in this worldly life. Fasting

food and drink. Those men and women who are aware of this, will feel that all greatness belongs to God and they will come to understand their trial of helplessness. The feeling of helplessness (ijz) that

when fasting relates to God. But when this feeling of ijz is produced in man in the real sense, it finds expression in human relations. One who becomes truly modest before God, finds this same spirit making

making him modest before human beings. In relation to God, this feeling is called ijz, while in relation to man this feeling is called modesty. Fasting, in essence, is a training in humility.FASTING AND

This means scientists are not in a position to say that there is no God, they can just take a sceptical stand on the existence of God. This is because the accepted base for belief in something in the intellectual

intellectual world is scientific, but since there is no scientific discovery about the non- existence of God, this is still subject to interpretation. Towards the end of the 19th century, there was a strong

what was popularly called ‘scientific atheism’. The argument often offered to negate the existence of God was His being invisible. But new scientific investigations carried out at the beginning of the 20th

of the presence of God becomes a perpetual incentive for the positive development of the human personality. This, in Islamic terms, is called a spiritual revolution. In short, belief in Islam makes accountability

accountability to God man’s greatest permanent concern. The potential of spirituality latent within man is activated by his belief to the ultimate extent; this turns him into a spiritual superman. But the

the feeling of the presence of God Almighty also cuts man down to size. ‘And man cut to size’ is the ultimate phrase in the spiritual dictionary. Such a man succeeds to the utmost degree in finding all

Science to God-Realizationbeings have fallen into negative thinking on one pretext or the other. They have not been able to adhere to positive thinking and have, therefore, not been able to attain God-realization

This is the greatest reason for the unattainability of a high level of realization. From Science to God-Realization What is science? Science is the systemized knowledge of nature and the physical world.

inference, of its Creator. However, no scientist in the past has openly acknowledged the existence of God. All that can be said about scientists of the like of Albert Einstein is that their case was one of

them until there is no more [religious] persecution, and religion belongs wholly to God: if they desist, then surely God is watching of what they do. (8:39) This verse has two parts. Here, the same point

artificial conditions produced by human beings should be replaced by the natural condition laid down by God. The persecution, or fitna, that this verse mentions relates to compulsion in religious matters, which

compelled to follow the monarch’s religion. This sort of coercion was opposed to the natural scheme that God has devised. Because of this, a sort of political centralization

This means scientists are not in a position to say that there is no God, they can just take a sceptical stand on the existence of God. This is because the accepted base for belief in something in the intellectual

intellectual world is scientific, but since there is no scientific discovery about the non- existence of God, this is still subject to interpretation. Towards the end of the 19th century, there was a strong wave

what was popularly called ‘scientific atheism’. The argument often offered to negate the existence of God was His being invisible. But new scientific investigations carried out at the beginning of the 20th

Otherwise they will be, in the words of the Quran, like donkeys, “laden with books” (62:5). The Book of God will not have entered their hearts. The Quran is the law of the universe, it is the voice of nature

inconvenience him. Fasting, by its very nature, is sure to result in physical discomfort. The fact that God has said in the Quran that He desires your well- being, not your discomfort (2:185), shows indirectly

fasting might appear to cause discomfort, but God has nothing to gain from causing unnecessary trouble to human beings! Man has been created in such a way by God that he must necessarily satisfy his material

expect good treatment for himself at the hands of God. One who fails to treat his fellow human beings in a decent fashion will have no share of God’s everlasting blessings in the world to come. It is in

weak and helpless souls, for when one treats such people in a decent manner, it is for the sake of God, there being no other incentive in this case. But when one treats a powerful person well, it is partly

for the sake of God, for in this instance, apart from the Almighty’s pleasure, there is nothing further to be gained. It is one who shows kindness to others, purely for the sake of God, who is the dearest

Attributes of God