without meeting her father. The next day the Prophet came to the house of Ali and Fatima and asked what it was she had wanted to discuss with him, but Fatima remained silent. Then Ali told the Prophet the

lowest of the low; except the believers who do good works, for theirs shall be a boundless recompense. What, then, after this can make you deny the Last Judgement? Is God not the best of judges? (The Quran

authentic missionaries the guidance of his choice. In this way God is telling everyone in advance what kind of life

the fact that no matter how huge, or wonderful in configuration, what we see of them amounts to only one tenth of their enormous bulk. What lies below the surface of the ocean spreading far and beyond the

What is Paradise?world, as one half of a pair—the present world, in which we pass our lives after birth, is the first half; and the next eternal world where we live after death is the other half. The Creator

Creator. The real aim of creation is to select those who are fit to inhabit the world of Paradise. What is Paradise? Paradise is the name of the ideal world; the desire for which is lodged in the hearts

difficulty which makes a man what he is. According to an English scholar, Ian Nash, who spent eleven years in Japan making a detailed study of the language and the nation, what shook the Japanese most profoundly

person’s mind when he performs a certain action. But God is fully cognizant of what is going on in his mind. He knows what kind of feelings he had at that time. People may mistake an evil act for a good

desires and curbing all negative impulses. Umar Faruq once asked another Companion of the Prophet what it meant to go in fear of God. The Companion replied, “O Leader of the believers, have you ever walked

on both sides with thorn bushes?” When he received a reply in the affirmative, the Companion asked what he had done on this occasion. Umar replied, “I gathered my clothes about me and walked carefully along

weight except for the truth. Chapter 101 of the Quran states: “The Clatterer! What is the Clatterer? Would that you knew what the Clatterer is! [It is] a Day when mankind shall be like scattered moths and

ordinary mortal could have such an extraordinary effect, what heights of consummate artistry could not be reached by the Lord of the Worlds in His creation of the Quran? Could any mere mortal truly appreciate

profound concern for his subjects and provides for all their needs. Man’s greatest need is to know what he is, where he has come from, and where he will go. He also needs to know where he will gain and

down in its entirety from generation to generation. In this way we can never be in any doubt as to what God demands of us. Through the Quran God still speaks to man in his own tongue. The Prophet not only

marketplaces. He knew prosperity. But he also knew hunger, thirst, poverty. He knew what it was to be successful and he knew what it was to be rejected, especially when it was a question of calling his fellowmen