” The member of the audience who had co-operated in the experiment confirmed that this was indeed what he had mentally noted. The horror of the announcer was evident from his voice, but he continued reading

reading the news. Meanwhile, hundreds of listeners were telephoning the broadcasting station to find out what had gone wrong. They had obviously grasped that these words had no place in the context of the news

news, he had suffered from a severe headache all of a sudden, and that later he could not remember what had followed. Now, if a mortal being can be endowed with telepathic faculties which permit him to

welfare system: only 3 percent got more than half the questions right. That wasn’t very surprising, but what should be a warning to us all is that: those holding the least accurate beliefs were the ones expressing

to get the meal. God has set up a natural process that miraculously culminates in the conversion of what is non-food into food. This universal process makes possible the formation of the various foodstuffs

people to avail of these opportunities to achieve their goals. Peace cannot present a person with what he desires. It is for the person himself to reach his goal through planning and struggle. According

God’s cosmic tape recorder. Search as one may, one will never find any instrument which will erase what is indelibly recorded on God’s tape. Because, in many cases, our evasive tactics are successful in

like Germany, for example, could enjoy success because they planned on the basis of what remained with them and not on what they had lost. Similarly, the Prophet Muhammad had lost Makkah, but gained Madinah

is Due to God A tree is unaware of its own extraordinary significance. A flower does not realize what a delicate and exquisite masterpiece it really is. A bird is oblivious to its own breathtaking beauty

given man a tongue to express his wonder at and veneration of God’s stupendous feats of creation. What he utters is praise, or admiration of God. It is a tribute of the most sublime sentiments, expressed

form of worship. This remembrance of God is what is most desired of a human being. Therefore, the Quran adjures us to remember God very frequently (33:41). What is meant by remembrance of God? It does not

juncture as to the actual existence of this afterworld to which he is destined. In what way can it be apprehended? In what way can it be made intelligible to us? Take sound, for instance. Everyone knows

been described thus in a tradition: “Paradise is what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has conceived of.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No: 4779)WHAT IS PARADISE?The first category of people of Paradise