All the prophets of God have said their prayers with ism-e-aazam. For instance, when on the occasion of the battle of Badr the Prophet of...

The third kind of realization is at the voluntary or optional level. That is, man possessing total power, discovers the Majesty of God...

The moment of death is more serious than any imaginable or unimaginable moment. All other difficulties that human beings encounter, pale...

AN EARTHQUAKE When the earth is rocked in her last convulsion; when the earth shakes off its burdens and man asks ‘What may this mean?’...

What is ma‘arifah? Literally, ma‘arifah means realization. In religious terms, ma‘arifah means man’s realization of God, his Creator. He...

A sage once said that the desire to preach should have the same compulsive quality about it as the desire to satisfy any other normal...

The problems that confront man in the present age can all be traced, directly or indirectly, to one underlying cause: the separation of...

THE PROPHET AS A HUMAN BEING The Qur’an describes the Prophet of Islam as a human being like any other. What distinguished him from...

A Matter of Introspection THE manner of Muslims’ reaction in the face of provocations is counterproductive. This reaction can even be...

Dawah work has been termed in the Quran ‘the call to God.’ In other words, dawah work aims at bringing people closer to their Creator and...

Prophet’s Companion Abu Dhar Ghifari once narrated: “Even when a bird would flutter its wings in the air, the Prophet of Islam would...

There are certain people who think that all the subjects of science are discoverable in the Quran and that with reference to the relevant...

Heaven And Hell They underrate the might of God. But on the Day of Resurrection He will hold the entire earth in His grasp and fold up...

Worship, in terms of external expression, means bowing before the Sustainer, while in its inner sense it stands for that deep realization...

The only true religion in God’s sight is complete submission to God. And those who were given the Book disagreed only out of rivalry,...

A Ray of Hope Billy Graham, a well-known American missionary, writes that he once received an urgent message from an American billionaire...

There are several planes upon which the intellect functions. We can say that there are many different levels. But higher truths can be...

GOD IS ONE Say: God is One, The Eternal God. He begot none, nor was He begotten. None is equal to Him. (112:1-4) Mankind, worship your...

The Semitic faiths have many commonalities, writes FARIDA KHANAM Among the 12 major religions of the world, there are three — Judaism,...

The study of the Quran shows that the Quranic approach is based neither on mythology nor on superstition, but on scientific principles....