members of her family. She depended upon God alone: her sturdy independence was a shining example to us all. I have seen how she would get up early every morning, say the prescribed prayers and then work

are perpetually engaged in such activities; they have yet to see their own situation by the light of God. Had they ever perceived it in this way, they would have known that every cloud has a silver lining

unwitting errors (for the simple reason that they are humans, and not God!) are all too prone to make deliberate misrepresentations of facts when they are motivated by the base emotions of greed, envy

is not possible, then he should refrain from taking any steps whatsoever. He should rather pray to God to rectify the situation. Non-Islam in the name of Islam In March 2012 a Hindu extremist leader on

be fit to become the mother of one so miraculous in nature as the Prophet Jesus, on whom be peace. God had ordained that the final prophet of the Jewish people was to be born without a father: the character

You are the Mighty, the Wise One. (The Quran, 2:129) The first task of the Prophet was to receive God’s revelations and communicate them to man, i.e. he had to recite the verses of the Quran and explain

hearers. Innumerable signs within human nature and in the outside world have been placed there by God so that man may realize Him through them. The second task of the Prophet was, therefore, to reveal

to experience his Lord. Insight implies wisdom, so that when man has developed the insight to see God’s signs; when he has moulded his mind to the teachings of the Quran, a kind of intellectual light begins