His prophets. The prophets showed people, plainly and in terms that they could understand, exactly what the Lord requires of them; they defined the principles that God wants a person to adhere to and the

about redressing his setback. Spurred on with new resolve, he devotes himself to the task of regaining what has been lost. An irresistible spirit arises within him. Nothing can arrest his advance. Like a river

the country is about the same as it was in 1947 as far as the issue of communalism is concerned. What caused this failure? The basic reason is that this issue has been thought of simply as a law and order

essentially with the lack of intellectual development or lack of awareness. To solve the problem, what is required is to properly educate the people and to promote proper thinking and right judgment. People

distinction between actions that are efficacious and those that are not. They must know what they should do and what they should abstain from. They should learn the importance of thinking before acting.

world. Unfortunately, people, including the youth think that protests and demonstrations will get them what they want. There is no such example in history where protest directly resulted into a long term and

behaviour beforehand. For example, while planting saplings, a gardener assumes that no one would harm what he is planting. A gardener expects this good character in his fellow human beings. The student community

that one is free to devise the principles of one’s life as one wishes and to determine what is permissible and what is forbidden through one’s own reasoning. Every such effort is, as it were, tantamount

Everyone said in unison that they would take the Prophet with them, no matter what loss of life and property they incurred. “What will we have in return if we keep our word?” They asked the Prophet. “Paradise

Sufyan ibn Barb, all outstanding leaders of the Quraysh. Through Abu Talib, they asked the Prophet what it was he wanted to them. ‘Just one thing,”

Meccans considered the word foreign when it appeared in the Quran in an Arabicized form. They enquired what ‘rahman’ meant, being unaware of its linguistic background. Over one hundred non-Arabic words of this

‘Abbas, a Qurayshi Muslim, was puzzled when the word fatir appeared in the Quran. “I did not know what the expression ‘Originator of the heavens and the earth’ meant,” he explained. ‘Then I heard an Arab

Arab saying that he had ‘originated’ a well, when he had just started digging it, and I knew what the word ‘fatir’ meant.’ Abu Huraira said that he had never heard the word ‘sikkin’ until he heard it in

Everyone said in unison that they would take the Prophet with them, no matter what loss of life and property they incurred. “What will we have in return if we keep our word?” They asked the Prophet. “Paradise

Sufyan ibn Barb, all outstanding leaders of the Quraysh. Through Abu Talib, they asked the Prophet what it was he wanted to them. ‘Just one thing,”

existence of God according to modern scientific findings. It has been translated into several languages.21.WHAT IS ACTUALLY WITHIN MAN’S CONTROL?Natural laws will always remain as God has ordained them. These are

are laws which God has defined. They are every physical law known to man, and man cannot alter them. What a human being does have is the freedom of choice. This is our test. For example, a person cannot change

world. Man lives in this world amidst a multitude of divine blessings, yet he remains ungrateful. What is the reason for this? The reason is that whatever man receives, he gives himself rather than God

How did he receive the place of honour? Through his connections and relations, etc. In this way, what happens is that everything man