with old keys. Our leaders, in their frustration, have thought fit to identify certain “enemies of Islam” and to trace all their woes to them—as if they were the sole purveyors of these impregnable locks

channelled into it. Not only his time, but also his property went into the furtherance of the Islamic cause. Before the start of his mission, the Prophet had become quite rich by virtue of his marriage

Prophet would have amounted to aggression against his whole tribe—the Banu Hashim. Before he accepted Islam, ‘Umar ibn Khattab once set off with the intention of killing Muhammad. It was only sufficient for

and Ibn Kathir who construe this verse as meaning that imitation of non-believers is not allowed in Islam. Then he quotes the tradition in which the Prophet forbade adopting the ways of non-believers in prayers

into a hate culture, culminating in violence. A complaint culture is the root cause of all problems. What is the remedy for this complaint culture? It is Sabr (patience), the only workable remedy to overcome

is that the world we live in was not created by us. It was created by the Creator. We can achieve what we want to achieve only by following the laws set by the Creator. Going against this fact will only

person on the road, the person who is hit will say that another person hit him. But he won’t tell what he said himself that made the other person angry, and he hit him under provocation. In the same way

completely failed to achieve their declared goal. It is yet to be seen if the fourth will achieve what it has set out to achieve. All these anti-corruption movements made their demands from the system

for the first time, in the 7th century, the supremacy of polytheism was brought to an end by the Islamic revolution, which replaced it with monotheism, making it the dominant creed of the times. This revolution

merchants, Islam quickly spread, China being one of the notable examples. No similar instance is found in the world history of such an influence being exerted by the conqueror on the conquered. Even countries