Fasting and self purification: Part I
Fasting is an exercise in self-discipline. During the month of Ramadan, the believer abstains from food and drink in the...
Man and the atom
A locomotive consumes two tons of coal for every seventy miles it travels. A motor car uses up a gallon...
The marvel of discovery
Every age in history has bestowed honour and glory upon the great discoverers of the world, for discovery of something...
The greatest mathematician
“God is really only another artist,” said Picasso, “He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat.” Einstein once observed...
In the name of God
“God is great and none other is great”. This is an acknowledgement of an external reality. The words, “I am...
To make up for helplessness
God’s power is absolute; in front of God, man’s power is nothing. It is not true to say that the...
In the name of God
None other than God is great. This is an obvious truth. But strange as it may seem, this truth can...
A fool’s paradise
What a shock will it be for a man to realize that his activities on earth have amounted to nothing!...
Pride comes before fall
“Evil can have no beginning but from pride nor any end but from humility.” When the English author William Law...
Procession of death
A coffin is being carried aloft towards the grave. It seems like a journey, not just from one point to...
The essence of religion
A seed–a tiny grain–is put into the ground. From it a mighty tree develops. A seed is just a minute...
The unmasking
Some people in the world have not bowed to God in their hearts, and their physical prostration is devoid of...
The trial of life
The Quran tells us how, when man was first put on earth, Iblis (Satan) along with the Angels, was commanded...
The gathering storm
On 11 August 1979, Maurvi in Gujarat was struck by a flash flood which left total devastation in its wake....
Inner contentment
In the modern age we find a world of material advancement accompanied by human backwardness. It is true that man...
Opening the closed doors of the universe
There are several verses in the Quran that explain how everything in the universe is constantly engaged in praise and...
Opening closed doors of universe
Several verses in the Quran explain how everything in the universe is constantly engaged in praise and remembrance of God....
Beginning of a new era
With the end of the 14th century Hijrah, a whole era of Islam came to an end. With the beginning...
True religion
Initially, all religions start off as God-made religions but slowly, over the ages, they turn into man-made religions. This is...
The losers
In the chapter of the Quran entitled The Cave, there is a verse which states: “Say, ‘Shall I tell you...
Unfathomable mercy of God
According to a saying of Prophet Muhammad, related in the Sahih Muslim: “God has a hundred mercies, and one of...
The message of Islam
According to Islam the basic, most important fact of life is that we have been born in this world to...
Science and God realisation: Part 3
Now, the spectral pattern of the galaxies was all found to be slightly shifted to the red side. Different stars...
Science and God realisation: Part 2
The star nearest to us, apart from the sun, is called Proxima Centauri and is about four light-years away from...
