was of concern to God, that there was a life after death in heaven or hell, as warranted by the morality of man’s life on earth, and that all thinking on these matters must necessarily be regulated by

explained in terms of divine powers, the metaphysical stage, in which we find no mention of specific gods (although external factors are still referred to in order to explain events) and the stage of positivism

in terms of common laws deduced from observation and calculation without having recourse to spirit, God or absolute power. We are now passing through the third intellectual stage which, in philosophical

had not been aware of this, that God had been supposed to control the universe. The principle of cause and effect was then thought logically to dispense with the idea of God. But later research ran counter

contradictions of nature. He rejected the randomness of quantum mechanics, saying, “I cannot believe God plays dice with the universe.” Despite his best efforts, he was never able to resolve this problem

Waraqa replied that people have always turned against those who are recipients of God’s messages.The Quran—The Word of GodThe Prophet Muhammad faced many people in his lifetime who did not believe in him.

They challenged him to work a miracle just as Jesus had done in order to prove that God had really sent him as His messenger. This he did not do. He retorted that it was quite unnecessary, as the Quran

contains no information about when, how and where he will die. Why is this so? The reason is that God has made death a matter of conscious discovery for an individual. A person should come out of his programming

programming of a person, death is not so. When death arrives, it does so as a direct decision of God. It is God who decides when a person shall die. When someone dies, it does not mean the end of his life

the world of Paradise. God made a vast world, the world of Paradise, a world that was in the fullest sense a perfect world, a world where everything was of top standards. God wanted that in that world

their character were fully qualified for it, who would live in that ideal world as ideal people. Now, God also made the present planet Earth—as an introductory model of the perfect world of Paradise. Here

tawheed broaden the individual’s vision to the point of seeing all human beings in one light. When God appears in all His might, human strength in comparison pales into insignificance. For believers, He

for just as one man strives to please God, so does his neighbour work towards the same goal. Just as one man gives up all claims to greatness for the sake of God, so do all men do so in equal measure.

can misuse our freedom to do evil or use our freedom wisely, submit to God, and qualify for Paradise. Those who misuse their God- given freedom are chastised thus in the Quran: “This is the truth from

themselves except Satan, who did not. ‘Why did you not prostrate yourself when I commanded you?’ God asked. ‘I am nobler than Adam,’ he replied. ‘You created me of fire but You created him of clay.’

right and from their left. Then You shall find the greater part of them ungrateful.’ ‘Begone!’ said God. ‘A despicable outcast you shall henceforth be. With those that follow you I shall fill the Pit of