the same God, and for this reason belong to one great brotherhood. So far as their earthly origin is concerned, they are all descendants of the first pair of human beings ever created by God— Adam and

are apparently unlike themselves, for differentiating between one man and another is not approved by God. They should rather promote fellow feeling towards others, even if at first glance they appear like

needed. Deities of one sort or the other fulfilled these needs and man then began to worship such gods as were considered superior to all human beings and whose favours had to be sought as a matter of

development of religion. The attributes and the names bestowed upon the gods automatically change in accordance with the form of the State. The God as King is merely a transposition of the human as king, the divine

with freedom of choice and then settled them on the planet earth. Through His prophets, God Almighty gave guidance to humanity. In every age the prophets told the people of all races about right and wrong

themselves and to lead a good life by their own choice. In this sense, everyone is being tested. Then God Almighty established a system of complete recording. This recording system is managed by the angels

the kind of men and women who deserve to gain entry into eternal Paradise. At the time of Doomsday, God will appear with His angels and according to the angelic record He will select those men and women

had an ‘intelligent design’. In the light of these discoveries, it would be appropriate to say that God has been discovered at the intellectual level, and that the entire issue is simply one of nomenclature

scientists refer to it as ‘Intelligent Design’. Believers in various religions call this Reality ‘God’. Scientists have only discovered the creation. But the discovery of the Creator also occurs along

performed so thoroughly that the man of today has total freedom of choice. Now in his journey towards God, man is hindered neither by false ideologies nor by practical barriers. The Role of Non-Muslims in

al-Bukhari to this effect. According to this Hadith, Prophet Muhammad e, may peace be upon him, said: “God Almighty will strengthen this religion [Islam] through a fajir (one who is not a true Muslim) person

OF PARADISE When a man attains realization of God, discovers the realities of divine creation, this spontaneously brings words of acknowledgement of God to his lips. This will make him deserving of Paradise

civilization. Unlimited Scope of Patience When Prophet Muhammad e began his mission of tawhid (unity of God) in ancient Makkah, there existed as usual a status quo. The Quraysh had assumed the leadership of

cleared for Prophet’s mission. At that juncture, certain basic guidance was revealed to the Prophet. God declared in the Quran: Surely with every hardship there is ease; with every hardship there is surely

Its source is misuse of freedom by human beings. God bestowed freedom upon mankind in order to put us to the test in this world. It is the misuse of this God-given freedom which creates all kinds of problems

is, through discharging the duty of conveying the message of God to His slaves. The study shows that the Quran discusses only a few hundreds legal issues. While in the Hadith hundreds of thousands legal

one command as is general in its nature and it is dawah ilallah. That is, to convey the message of God to all His servants. This status of dawah makes it a universal command. If other commandments are Muslim-oriented

of this. God forbid! This is a monstrous slander.’ God warns you never to repeat the like of it again, if you are true believers.” (24:16-17) This verse relates originally to false slander about Ayesha