only way of existence in this world. Regarding social life, the essence of Islamic teaching is that God has granted freedom to everyone. This freedom in itself demands that people should lead their lives

destroying social life in their wake. The most repeated invocation in the Quran is “In the name of God, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.” The occurrence of this invocation 114 times

The prayer has various stages: bowing low, prostrating oneself, and standing and kneeling before God. In assuming these various postures, the congregation demonstrate their submission to the Lord. When

ground with their foreheads, with each posture they adopt, they renew their covenant of submission to God. During the prayers, an excerpt from the Quran is read out. One amazing attribute of the Quran is that

struggling for the cause of God. It is of the utmost significance that this was an act performed by a woman. Perhaps there could be no better demonstration of a woman’s greatness than God’s command to all men,

applicability. Observe the following verse: And fight in God’s cause against those who wage war against you, but do not commit aggression – for surely God does not love aggressors. Slay them wherever you find

2:190-91) Fight them until there is no more fitna [religious persecution] and religion belongs to God alone. If the desist, then let there be no hostility, except towards aggressors. (Quran 2:193) The

consisted of the peaceful teachings of Islam as are conveyed in the verses regarding the realization of God, worship, morality, piety, justice, etc. This division of commands into different categories is a

(millat-e awja) was straightened and people began saying, ‘There is no god but God.’ Through this, the Prophet would open many blind eyes, deaf ears and closed hearts. Commenting on this hadith report

report, this Jamaat-eIslami-oriented writer says that the purpose behind God’s sending the Prophet Muhammad was iqamat-e deen. He adds that a very long time before the appearance of the Prophet Muhammad, the

report. Allama Aini (d. 1451 C.E.) writes in his Umdat ul-Qari that it means that, through the Prophet, God would negate polytheism and affirm His oneness. He adds that the ‘crooked millat’ mentioned in this

has never before been experienced in human history, and in the wake of which all ancient ideas about God and religion have had to be re-examined. This, as Julian Huxley puts it, is the challenge of modern

led them to wrong conclusions, namely, the existence of a God or Gods, the notions that creation and destruction were a function of the godhead, that man’s fate

Imagine their state when they will realize that only those who were right according to the criteria that God has established were right indeed! Finding a huge crowd to welcome them, people think that they are

Imagine their condition when they will come to know that the only fortunate person is the one whom God and His angels are waiting to welcome! Every person has built a fantasy world of his own, and is happy

these makebelieve edifices. At that time, only those who have taken refuge in the ‘edifice’ of God and are in God’s shade, will be safe. This Hell-Bound Caravan Contemplating on man’s case I thought, ‘Everyone

OrganisationWithin even the tiniest of seeds, God has concealed the beginning of a verdant plant: from one tiny kernel can spring forth the loftiest of trees. But this potentiality can be realized only

be no question of its producing a plant, green or otherwise. Why should this be so? It is because God has created the correct combination of conditions for growth to take place and has laid down a definite

it causes all of God’s creations to thrive and flourish. The same is true of our human communities. Once they are entrusted with the divine code of life, as enshrined in the Book of God, they need only

spirit of faith. A true man of faith will say to another: “Forgive me,” just as easily as he says to God: “O Lord, forgive me.” Tawbah is an inner spirit, a readiness to atone for every kind of mistake.It

But those of them who believed that they would meet God replied, ‘Many a small group, by God’s command, has prevailed against a large group. For God is with those who are patient in adversity.’ (2:249)

true realization, another name for which is maarifah.PRAISE BE TO GOD ( ALHAMD-O-LILLAH )When man has an ocean of gratitude for God’s innumerable blessings, he spontaneously utters words of praise in universal

Quran is, “Praise be to God, the Lord of the Universe.” (1:2) These are words which it takes but a moment to repeat. But if these words have to express true realization of God, their significance is so