Consumerism is making people live in intellectual starvation, leading to their complete heedlessness of God and forgetfulness of the purpose of life. Man must become consciously so capable as to be able to ponder

of forgetfulness. On a vast scale, this culture has put human beings into complete heedlessness of God and forgetfulness of the purpose of life. As a result, today’s man is engrossed in different types

more favours on you” (14:7). That is, if you are truly grateful to God for the blessings He has bestowed upon you in this world, God will give you His blessings in Paradise. A true feeling of gratefulness

THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN THE VAST UNIVERSEConscious discovery of God in all His majesty ushers in an intellectual revolution in a person. With this belief a new spiritual (Rabbani) personality emerges within

that process which is directly established between God and man through a psychological relationship. Tazkiyah is a blessing which man receives from God. The body requires physical food. When it receives

cleanliness for a person. But for a believer, cleanliness is a form of worship, because he knows that God loves people to be clean. Furthermore, the faith of a believer is a guarantee that when he is able

physically, he is also able to purify his soul. As such when he is purifying himself, he prays, “O God, clean not just my body but also my soul.” Such a prayer becomes a means of purifying the soul. TOLERANCE

God and ParadiseMan is unique in having two faculties bestowed upon him—one, the faculty of thinking and the other, the faculty of enjoyment. If man utilizes both these faculties in a proper way, he will

will, on the one hand, discover the existence of God and, on the other, the existence of Paradise. The phenomenon of thinking is an exceptional human attribute. The well-known French philosopher Rene Descartes

concept of God? It was no more than the discovery that the universe is bound by certain laws. In ancient times, man had simply believed that all happenings in the world were directly attributable to God. But

entirely predictable. These discoveries were taken to mean that the universe, which we had regarded as God’s domain, was actually subservient to a set of material and physical laws. When these laws were applied

elements and time, he would be able to create a man. Nietzsche proclaimed with triumphant finality, ‘God is dead.’ Another belief had it that the creator and sustainer of this universe was not an alive, intelligent

missionary status of the Muslims has been mentioned in it. They have received this divine religion through God’s Messenger. Now, this is their duty that they should continually convey this religion to every generation

every age. In this verse, what is meant by the word witness is da‘ee (the one who preaches the word of God to others). The fact is that it was the responsibility of the followers of every prophet to convey

(those who have been given the scriptures) also. It has been termed in the Quran tabi‘een, i.e., God’s making clear His commandments to mankind (2:187). This tabi‘een, or dawah or witness is neither a

explanation of nature and, as such, an alternative to God, can just as easily be thought of as being the way nature works. We can, quite rationally, say that God implements his will through these laws, only parts

skills, has been able to discover. Let us suppose that religious minded people, who believe that it is God who causes the ebb and flow of the tides, are confronted with the scientific explanation that the tides

surfaces. There would be no need for them to deny this explanation in order to uphold their belief in God’s instrumentality.

It is repeatedly stated in the Quran that everything in the universe is subservient to the will of God. That being so, the universe, displaying as it does all the various manifestations of His will, His

free of cost. The trees provide an abundance of fruits and flowers on a strictly unilateral basis. God’s provision of rains on such an enormous scale is a vital system on which human life rests. But this

for its services. Even if man abuses the universe, it does not lose its beneficent character. This God-given model has to be followed by man here on earth. The Quran