9.WHAT ARE THE FIVE DAILY PRAYERS IN ISLAM?Prayer is form of worship of God. Prayer has been enjoined on believers five times a day at appointed hours: Believers are under the obligation to say their

in mosques. A believer begins his prayer by uttering the words “God is Great”. These words acknowledge that all greatness belongs to God and that the worshipper will lead a life of modesty and humility

pure, and only God knows the state of one’s heart. We, humans, do not know what a person is in his heart and so we cannot determine a person’s purity. This matter is solely between God and man.41.HOW WAS

sent their delegations and scholars to the Prophet to confirm if his claim of being a prophet sent by God was correct. The delegations used to ask him questions which would seek to confirm the veracity of

‘the paths of peace’. (Quran 5:16) The Quran believes that: Reconciliation is best. (Quran 4:128) God abhors any disturbance of peace. (Quran 2:205)20.HOW CAN WE ELIMINATE ALL TERRORISTS FROM THE WORLD

results from the misuse of freedom by human beings. God bestowed freedom upon mankind in order to put us to the test in this world. It is the misuse of this God-given freedom which creates all kinds of problems

believers thus: Fight in the cause of God against those who wage war against you but do not commit aggression. God does not love aggressors. (Quran 2:190) A tradition narrates: God grants to gentleness what He

allowed to inhabit this earth created by God. During the last period of the Prophet Noah’s time, such conditions prevailed that he felt constrained to pray to God: “If You leave any, they will misguide Your

will beget none but sinners and deniers of truth.” (71:27). Given this kind of extreme situation, God destroyed the people of Noah by a great flood. Only a tiny minority who had believed in the admonitions

engaged in and under all circumstances. The objective of the jihad of dawah is to convey the message of God to all people in every generation. As jihad of dawah is a continuous struggle, it has been called jihad-e-kabir

jihad-e-kabir or ‘great jihad’ in the Quran (25:52). The Islamic mission of dawah, or inviting people to God, is called jihad as it has to be undertaken at the cost of sacrifice by suffering loss and hardship

one must continue the prophetic dawah mission. That is why it has been called ‘jihad in the path of God’. (9:24) By engaging in dawah work, one can become eligible for Divine reward.

and messengership has been terminated and after me neither a prophet nor a messenger will be sent by God” (Sahih Muslim). In addition to his having said that there would be no prophet after him, this was

that these words have become a matter of history. No one has so far dared to claim to be a prophet of God. Certain personalities have been named in connection with the prophethood, but this is certainly not

have never made a claim in clear terms such as the Prophet Muhammad did: No doubt, I am a Prophet of God. (Ibn Hisham). The first instance in this connection is that of Musailama of Yamama (Arabia), a contemporary

not meant to be luxuries. They were meant, rather, to be merely facilities. For the truth is that God made this world purely as a preparatory ground, and man was required to build in it a heavenly personality

in this world itself. God continued to send warnings of different kinds, but man could not be brought to his senses. In this way, he forfeited the justification, in the eyes of God, to stay in this world

resources had existed in nature from the very outset, but human beings had given nature the status of God, leading to nature worship. Viewing nature as an object of worship, man did not at that time dare to

quarter of the 7th century, when Islam spread the revolutionary belief in the One God, nature worship was replaced by God worship; nature was no longer sacred. Now nature became something to conquer rather

man’s soul should commune with God in this world. If this is not the case, it means that the true spirit of religion is lacking. People may claim to believe in God, but their belief consists of an attachment

religion down to the level of their own consciousness and neglect the spirit of true submission to God. When this happens, people tend to ignore the spirit behind religious observances, and as a result