along peaceful lines, and not from that point where there are chances of its being marred by violence. What are the advantages of non-violent activism over violent activism? They are briefly stated as under:

other is the conscience, called respectively nafs ammara and nafs lawwama (The Quran, 12:53; 75:26). What the violent method invariably does is to awaken the ego, which necessarily results in a breakdown

from clots of congealed blood. Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One, Who by the pen, taught man what he did not know. Indeed, man transgresses in thinking himself self-sufficient. For to your Lord all

the Prophet Muhammad. They tell us what God’s purpose was in choosing this particular way of sending His revelations through His messengers, namely, to inform man of what would otherwise have been impossible

member of the family into which she has married. What she suffers, as a result, is self-inflicted. What is actually at fault is her own poor understanding of what is required of her as a daughter-in-law, but

of unity was awakened, and then what ensued fulfilled the best of expectations. All of a sudden, the gaps between them were bridged. They all began to feel themselves what they really were, and for that

SocietyA good society is the cherished ideal of every human soul. But a consensus has yet to emerge on what constitutes a good society. This is undoubtedly one of the most complex questions facing us today

former, but it did not remain with me. I searched a lot for love but never found it. If human life is what I got, then it is absolutely meaningless, because its final result is nothing but despair and destruction

without worrying. Now, I am at the verge of death. Very soon, my grave will eat up my body. This is what is going to finally happen to every human being. Yet, every one of us is oblivious to this. When the

and he saw two women standing apart from them, who were holding back their flocks, so he asked, ‘What is the matter with you?’ They replied, ‘We cannot draw water until the shepherds take away their sheep

his daughter to Moses; then after eight years Moses left Midian and returned to his homeland, Egypt. What the woman said when she asked her father to hire Moses is the best formula for success in this world

moment an individual accepts God as a living, conscious Being, he is confronted with the question: ‘What does my Lord expect from me?’ From within himself, he receives signals in response. The universe

he feels a strong desire to receive such messages loud and clear, so that he may know for certain what the future holds for him, and as he strains to find answers to his questions, he hears as if by a

uncompromising circumstances may seem, they contain somewhere, the possibility of triumph for man. What one should do is seek out these possibilities and use them to turn one’s defeat into victory. Though

his ideas on vegetarian food, he set his thoughts down on paper but was not even able to read out what he himself has written. Someone, however, taking pity on him, read his discourse for him. After passing

that at no future date would insurrection rear its head. In fact, most of those he forgave accepted Islam and became a source of strength to it, one instance being that of ‘Ikrimah, the son of Abu Jahl, formerly