your bad deeds and admit you into gardens watered by running streams, on a Day when God will not abase the Prophet and those who have believed with him. Their light will shine out ahead of them and on

to God with strong commitment, this is called pure repentance. If the person truly repents, his whole life will change. At first, if his way of thinking was ungodly, now his thinking will be godly. If

through the divine palace. Showing no signs of modesty, they distance themselves from the mercy of God. Once, having been invited to participate in a conference I had occasion to go to a country which

seeing this, I thought that the world we live in is also a great Palace of God. Everywhere there are the splendours and wonders of God’s Glory and Power. In this divine Palace, man should have the same feeling—only

their actions, but they can only be saved by admitting their faults. The day when man is taken before God will be the most awesome of days. If one is really aware of what this day means, one’s whole life will

divine scales of justice on which everyone will be placed after death. One who fears the hand of God will look on everyone’s death as if it were his own. When he sees someone being taken to a human court

human beings in the best form. The Quran (40:64) says: He [God] shaped you, formed you well, and provided you with good things. Such is God, your Lord, so glory be to Him, the Lord of the Universe.

them to successfully achieve by peaceful means what they are unable to achieve by violent means. May God accept the spirit of the writer in this regard and make this book a means of ushering in a new revolution

New Delhi. I would also like to thank Aijaz Ahmed who has read and commented on the manuscript. May God bless them all! Wahiduddin Khan New Delhi, July 26, 2015

words of solace. He said: “Don’t worry, I am just a call away.” Suddenly, a thought came to my mind. God Almighty is also just a call away from every man and woman. The Creator created man in such a way that

is no distance between the two: both are very near to each other. It is possible for man to contact God Almighty at any moment, from wherever he may be. This concept gives every man and woman unshakable

who reach their Lord with nothing but good deeds to their credit. These are the ones on whom God will shower His mercy. The Inheritance of Paradise The believer is like a solid tree, which is nourished

succour. He is unstable in this world and will give no fruit in the next. He loses out in both places. God has given unbelievers some rein in this ephemeral world, and the opportunities they have been given

was asked from man was nothing but acknowledgement, but man was so engrossed with things other than God that he could not pay this price of acknowledgement. What is acknowledgement? Acknowledgement is not

man thinks deeply, divine realities are revealed to him. On the one hand, he attains realization of God, and on the other hand, he discovers the realities of divine creation. He becomes fully conscious of

beings but the conducive conditions for it are provided by God. Just as the farming is to be done by the farmer while the rains come from God. In modern times favourable conditions have been fully provided

herself and exclaimed: “Death to you instead,” which means, “May God damn you.” The Prophet told Ayisha not to answer back in this manner. “God is gentle,” he said, “and He likes gentleness in every matter