have no trouble in reaching its destination. But should its wheels slip off the rails—no matter to what side—its journey will come to a sudden and disastrous end. Man’s journey through life is in some ways

WHAT IS TAKEAWAYUsefulness of Anything DURING a walk along a street in London, a board in front of a shop with the words 'TAKEAWAY' written in bold expression triggered the mind to think further. Initially

every gift. And so, along with man’s uniqueness a certain responsibility is also present—and that is what is called a test. The test for man is for him to bow down before God despite the freedom that he enjoys

may observe and ponder over it; so that realization of its greatness may lead us to a realization of what a small part we occupy in it; so that we may be imbued with the quality of humility, which is the

58 The Muslims arrived at the correct hypothesis of the solar system’s functioning only because Islam had broken down the walls of conditioned thinking, which had acted as a barrier to man’s intellectual

was asked what sort of clothes should be worn, he told the questioner to dress in such a manner as would be neither ridiculed by the ignorant nor frowned upon by the serious. When asked what sort of clothes

expedition to Tabuk. On reaching there, he noticed that Kaab ibn Malik was missing from the Muslim party. “What is Kaab about?” he asked. One of the Banu Salmah suggested that Kaab had difficulty in getting up

him to show him how to behave so that he should go straight to Heaven and be saved from the Fire. “What

churning up of a tub of water by a human hand. But, in the peace and quiet of the universe, who or what brought about this disturbance? Despite the fact that nothing whatever is known about this, the assumption

severally as stars, planets and meteors. This is one explanation of the universe given by science. But what a poor, flimsy explanation it is! Scientists themselves do not feel that it carries any great conviction

discovered the first cause of the universe, to which it gives the name of chance, it cannot say who or what caused the first motion in the universe. And that is its greatest weakness. The question is, when

of the Quran in these words: “We sent it [Quran] down on the Night of Destiny. And what will make you comprehend what the Night of Destiny is? The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months; on