chapter Al-Nisa (Women). It says: Whoever obeys God and the Prophet will be among those He has blessed: the prophets, the truthful, the witnesses for God, and the righteous. What excellent companions these

he will eventually reach his destination. If people were to become aware of the creation plan of God, they too would come to look upon themselves as travellers with just a few hours to go to complete

sterling character will be held deserving of receiving an eternal seat in the neighbourhood of Almighty God (54:55). Paradise is an ineffable world of happiness and comfort. Paradise will be given to those

shirk (associate partners with God) should be killed or punished. This is highly baseless. This is a deviation from the freedom that human beings have been given by God in this world.

shirk (associate partners with God) should be killed or punished. This is highly baseless. This is a deviation from the freedom that human beings have been given by God in this world.

Fatimah said, “O Prophet of God, both of my hands have boils on them. I have to keep grinding and kneading the flour, so I wanted a servant.” The Prophet replied, “Whatever God has decreed, that you will

will receive. And I will tell you something better than that. That is, when you go to bed, glorify God 33 times and proclaim His glory 33 times and praise him 34 times. This makes full one hundred. Such action

recurrent factors. It is the same points—the oneness of God, the inevitability of the life after death, the need for man to understand his position as God’s servant, and live as such according to the prophetic

pattern—which are stressed again and again. When these points come from the tongue of the preacher of God’s word, they take on the hue of the preacher’s own person; this makes the message of the da‘i a living

its being impossible to compile a rigid list of them. The heart of the preacher of God’s word is full of fear of God; it is his ardent desire to bring his audience on to the path of right