answer: “If they separate, God will compensate each of them out of His own abundance: He is Munificent, Wise.”137 The munificence of God refers to the vast provision which God has made for his servants

servants in this world. In various ways God helps such distressed people. For example, when a woman is divorced, it is but natural that the sympathy of all her blood relations should be aroused. And, as a result

been established from authentic traditions that the angel Gabriel, who conveyed the revelations of God to the Prophet, himself arranged these verses: each year during the month of Ramadan, Gabriel would

order. This dual process has been termed al-Irza, ‘mutual presentation,’ in the books of hadith. God does not like arrogant, boastful people. AL-NISA’, 4:36

one human being and another, but between God and man. And before God, certainly, all human beings are equal; all are equally His creatures and His servants. For God does not discriminate between one or the

continuously strive to be tolerant lest he show some improper reaction, which would be displeasing to God.

one God alone. Had it been controlled by several gods (or ‘forces’), it would surely have been plagued by disorder, it would have been disorganized by the inevitable conflicts between several ‘gods’. There

that the entire universe adheres strictly to this principle. The Quran expresses it thus: ‘It is He (God) who has created everything and has determined the due proportion of everything’ (25:2). Ian Roxburgh

In other words, future times will see the intellectual ascendancy of Islam. However, if the word of God is to be brought into every home, conditions must exist which will favour the success of such a mission

begun embracing Islam in countries all over the world. Now, the need of the hour is for servants of God to arise and, by fully availing of new opportunities, play a decisive role in the last and most significant

opportunities than hitherto to make Islamic da‘wah a success. The communication of the message of God has certainly been going on in every age. But now modern circumstances have made it possible for this

the Hereafter. The good fortune of finding a place in God’s neighbourhood in the eternal life of the Hereafter will be based totally on merit. God’s neighbourhood is like a universal garden. In this universal

sufficient to guarantee a place in this universal garden. Who will be eligible for entry into God’s Paradise? God will allow only those people to live in His neighbourhood, who adhere to divine ethics at two

two levels: one stands in relation to man versus man, another stands in relation to man versus God. These two codes of ethics are different in their dimensions. In relation to man moral behaviour is, in

make an Islamic life. One can only become a true Muslim when one begins to receive the light of God. God has provided a world of nourishment for trees; in like manner, spiritual nourishment is always available

existence involuntarily, whereas man can only develop of his own free will. Those who thrive on God’s spiritual provision in this world will flourish in the hereafter. Those who neglected to partake of

spiritually impoverished state, no matter how splendid their condition on earth was. The Believer: God’s Industry Everyone is an industry. Some produce nothing but flames and poison in the sense that they

sets of consequences. Though this judgement will be entirely God’s judgement, the announcement of it will be made by those special servants of God who had undertaken the task of dawah (call) and shahadah (witness)

pronounce God’s judgement to the people. The shuhada’ (those who bore witness to people) and the du‘at (those who called people to the truth), strove very hard in the world to convey the message of God to people

has explained this concept of oneness of reality in these words: ‘The knower and the known are one. God and I, we are one in knowledge, and there is no distinction between us (12/787).