MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD PARENTSA believer should be grateful to God, acknowledge and submit to Him. He should treat his parents honourably, speak gently to them and fulfil their needs. Chapter 31

done.” (31:14-15) After God, a person’s parents have the first claim upon his loyalty. But, if the parents’ desire clashes with God’s will, then preference has to be given to God’s

ages, they distorted the divine scriptures and became the followers of their own desires. After this, God snatched the favour from the Children of Israel He had bestowed on them and bestowed it on the followers

are a number of sayings of the Prophet as indicate to their supremacy. What is meant by this is that God has chosen the community of the Prophet for the same duty for which He had chosen the Children of Israel

after generation until the Day of Resurrection. If they leave off this duty of preaching the word of God to the people they will be deprived of the position they have been conferred on in the same way as

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

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 da’wah or the communication of the message was required in

Paradise is actually the habitat of realized persons who will be settled there eternally by the grace of God Almighty. In this world, the last thing to be attained is realization; and in the Hereafter, the last

Realization is another name for the discovery of the truth, that is the highest reality, that is God. Knowledge of the realization of truth is potentially inherent in every man. To convert this potential

is actually the habitat of realized persons where they will be settled for all time by the grace of God Almighty! Realization is just another name of an important aspect of wisdom. Indeed, realization is

Paradise is actually the habitat of realized persons who will be settled there eternally by the grace of God Almighty. In this world, the last thing to be attained is realization; and in the Hereafter, the last

Realization is another name for the discovery of the truth, that is the highest reality, that is God. Knowledge of the realization of truth is potentially inherent in every man. To convert this potential

is actually the habitat of realized persons where they will be settled for all time by the grace of God Almighty! Realization is just another name of an important aspect of wisdom. Indeed, realization is

oneness of God. They will stress that in Islam, worship is due only to the one God and to no one else. But, in actual practice, the community is immersed in the ‘worship’ of entities other than God. Some members

‘the paths of peace’ (5:16). It describes reconciliation as the best policy (4:128), and states that God abhors any disturbance of the peace (2:205). The root word of Islam is ‘silm’, which means peace.

spirit of peace. The first verse of the Qur’an breathes the spirit of peace. It reads: In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. This verse is repeated in the Qur’an no less than 114

times. It shows the great importance Islam attaches to such values as Mercy and Compassion. One of God’s names, according to the Qur’an, is as-salam, which means peace. Moreover the Qur’an states that the

self-control. God desires that he should also exercise the same restraint whenever he has the opportunity to display his ego and his arrogance. He must not fall into unjust ways. If man is to earn God’s favour

desirable that he should lead a life of selfimposed curbs. This is the only way to seek nearness to God Almighty. FASTING FOR GRATITUDE AND PENITENCE The month of fasting is a period of spiritual purification

the negative, Shaddad explained that it was the fear of God that would be taken away. “There will not be a Godfearing man to be seen.” (JAMI‘ BAYAN AL-‘ILM) No one is exempt from danger of going astray

records the Prophet as saying: “For a time this community will practice the teachings of the Book of God. Then for some time they will adhere to the path of the Prophet. Then they will start acting on the

regulated by God with unfailing accuracy. The solar system in which the planet earth is located is one such example. This system announces in silent language that there is an Omnipotent God of this universe

the words of the Prophet of Islam, they are God’s great signs. That is why Islam teaches us that at the occurrence of eclipse the believers should worship God. This worship is called salat-e khusuf (prayers

occasion of lunar eclipse) and salat-e kusuf (prayers said on the occasion of solar eclipse). Worshipping God at the time of the eclipse is an acknowledgement that