throughout human history bear out God’s fulfillment of His promise— Muslims as well as non-Muslims, individuals as well as communities have been pressed into this service by God. So far as the former prophets

secure sufficient numbers of followers to provide a strong guarantee of the preservation of the book of God. But the case of the Prophet of Islam is distinctly different from that of the other prophets. On the

JUNE 1 Means of CommunicationThe telephone is one of the wondrous blessings of God. This wondrous invention converts spoken words into electrical waves, transmits them along a line and reconverts them

around the world with a whisper.” Telephones and all other such means of communication are blessings of God. They are there to be used for the communication of His message. But such blessings are used to the

purposes other than the communication of the divine message. What a strange example of the misuse of God’s blessings!

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

Prior to this, in Makkah, the wording of the call was as follows: “O people, say, ‘There is no god but God,’ and you will succeed,” “I have come to warn you of the coming day of horror,” etc. All his addresses

adopted only in Madinah. In the early Makkan days, when he made his appeal to Abu Bakr, he said: “I am God’s Prophet, I invite you to come to Him.” But then after the Fall of Makkah, he made the same appeal

end. Without fear of any psychological complication on the part of the madu, the creation plan of God,

faith. Well-wishing is faith. Well-wishing is faith.’ When asked towards whom, he replied, ‘Towards God, His Messenger, His Book, the Muslim rulers and the common people.’ HADITH OF MUSLIM.

the Islamic method is a completely peaceful method. Give people the true understanding of Islam and God willing, peace will prevail.

can be quickly overcome provided you put to good use the natural gifts bestowed upon you by Almighty God.

al-insaan (the abode of human beings). It is Muslims’ bounden duty to regard all human beings as God’s creatures. Once, in Madinah, the Prophet of Islam, on seeing the funeral procession of a Jew, stood

human being?’3 The Prophet Muhammad thus recognized a commonality between himself and a Jew—that the God who had created him had also created the Jew. This is the real basis of human equality. According

flourishing business? It is clearly the buyers of arms who have done so. These customers are God’s creation and God gave them minds so that they might use it for a healthy purpose. But they have instead used