where seeking is instinctive, finding is the outcome of one’s own conscious effort. In the pre-Islamic period, there were certain individuals in Arabia, called Hunafa. They were all truth seekers. Confining

their possession their enthusiasm turns to frustration for, with experience, they invariably find that what they have struggled for so hard, has failed to give them the desired sense of fulfilment. All these

December 1961, I put my views down on paper and sent them to the Maulana. And what reply did I get? The Maulana was a flag-bearer of the revival of the Caliphate, and so one would have thought that his

exercising my right, but also abiding by my duty. After all, he himself wrote that this is precisely what ought to happen under the Caliphate that he wished to establish. He should have taken it as proof

with me, he could have tried to give me an appropriate reply and thereby tried to satisfy me. But what actually happened? In my book Taʿbir ki Ghalati I have included the correspondence that I exchanged

going through! How often we seek to provide proof of our truthfulness through our words, although what alone counts is evidence of our truthfulness through our actions! How often we show our good manners

deception. Such a field is of no use to the farmer. One strike of a flood is enough to prove it for what it truly is. Likewise, showy, phony piety is false and utterly useless. The ‘flood’ of the Hereafter

providing a wonderful parable about a person who calls others toward God, and those to whom he calls: “To what shall I compare this generation? They are like

and do what is right We will surely grant a happy life: We shall reward them according to their noblest actions.7 The true believers, both men and women, are friends to each other. They enjoin what is just

just and forbid what is evil; they attend to their prayers and pay the alms-tax and obey Allah and His Messenger. On these Allah will have mercy. He is mighty and wise.8 Their Lord answers them, saying:

God has created is so wonderful that one has only to gaze upon it to become lost in the wonders of what He has fashioned. The face of the Creator shines continually in the perfection of His creation. In

you rethink and re-plan your life. It tells you that He has created you for something bigger than what you are presently involved in. God has not made you to make this world your goal and purpose and to

efforts with this pattern. God strengthens those who help Him in this way. Here is an example of what happens when one fails to do so. There was a priest, who wanted to see a lush tree standing in front

“If I plant a seed,” he thought, “it will take at least ten years to grow into a full tree.” So what he did was to uproot a large tree and, hiring several labourers to transport it from where it had

own efforts with this pattern. God strengthens those who help Him in this way. Here is an example of what happens when one fails to do so. There was a priest, who wanted to see a lush tree standing in front

house. “If I plant a seed,” he thought, “it will take at least ten years to grow into a full tree.” So what he did was to uproot a large tree and, hiring several labourers to transport it from where it had

“Praise be to God! He will show you His signs and you will recognize them. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.” (27:93) From these words of the Quran we learn that a principle, as regards the discovery

To understand the content of God-realization in the phenomena of nature, it is essential to find what these hints specify. These details, not being available in the Quran, we have to discover them by

study of externalities. That is to say, the science or knowledge of nature gives us an explanation of what is merely adumbrated in the Quran. The above Quranic verse says: “He will show you His signs and you

the heavens and on the earth. Who can intercede with Him save by His leave? He knows what lies before humans and what