had passed a sentence against him and that the next day he was to be hanged. When he learned about what was going to happen to him the next day, it was as if he had already been hanged. Life, for him, suddenly

drained of all his strength. He could not even move his hands or feet. Death informs us that this is what is going to happen to us all. Every person who appears to be alive today is going to be taken to the

among those He has blessed: the prophets, the truthful, the witnesses for God, and the righteous. What excellent companions these are! (4:69)

What is Truth? There is only one straight line from one point to another; so there can only be one path leading a person to God. This is the true path. The question is: what does truth consist of and how

you stand at a busy crossroads during the evening rush-hour and observe what people are hurrying towards, you will realize what today’s human-being has chosen as his fundamental issue. Why do you think

not deviate from this divine nature. God “inspired this (divine nature) so that he might understand what was right and wrong for it.” (91:8) If man saves himself from distraction, he will certainly discover

of this divine nature. God’s prophets came to the world to make men aware of this nature, so that what exists within man at the unconscious level, should be discovered by him even at the conscious level

erecting walls of sand which will crumble away to nothing. Man! Recognize yourself! Know what you are doing. and what you ought to be doing!

the gold. And then the chain’s reality emerged. It wasn’t gold at all, but brass! This is exactly what is going to happen in the Hereafter, too. In this world, everyone is engrossed in doing various things

will pine to be parted from the consequences of this clinging, but that will not be possible at all. What they took great pride in while in this world will prove to be a cause for their downfall in the next

known that nothing happens before its stipulated time. It is not possible in this world to find today what you are not destined to find until tomorrow. When a man and a woman come together in marriage and

same principle applies to a husband as well as a wife. It is only after waiting that one receives what one is waiting for. This is a Law of Nature, and no law is greater in this world than the Law of Nature

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

truth. They are what they are in reality. They show themselves to be so. In this vast world of God, nothing stands on falsehood. There is nothing which pretends to be anything other than what it actually is