By A Staff Writer “Who does greater wrong than the one who fabricates a lie against God? Such people shall be brought before their Lord […] Surely God’s rejection is merited by such wrongdoers.” (The Quran 11:18) “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain…
The Quran talks about mutual consultation on collective affairs. Modern democracies are only an evolved form of consultation. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, emphasized the need for mutual consultation (mashwara) among Muslims on the issues that pertain to their social and collective life. In a Hadith, he said: “No individual would ever suffer a…
It’s only when you live with people of other faiths for an extended period of time that you can begin to really understand them”as fellow human beings. By A Staff Writer At the centre where I work, we have a wonderful way of beginning our day: with a short devotion, which anyone from among us…
We have little or no time to talk to God, though we have all the time in the world to gossip with our friends on our mobile phones. By Narka Awomi The more advanced our technology gets, the swifter our communications become. Modern technology has enabled us to almost instantly connect with people who may…
While driving a vehicle, you notice many other people also driving on the road. And so, you carefully avoid crashing into them and drive on ahead. We should navigate our lives in exactly the same way. By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan A rose-bush has a wonderful lesson to teach us”about how to live in this world.…
If someone, out of genuine concern, reminds us that life is an exam that will determine our prospects in the eternal world to come in the life after death”how quickly we want to shut him down! We tell him to stop being ‘morose and boring and a fun-spoiler’, By Suresh Shah At last, the day…
God knows what He’s doing for all of us. He is the Potter, and we are His clay. There was a couple who used to go to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, “May we…
A sage who arrived at the Ganges River to take bath found a group of family members shouting in anger at each other. He then turned to his disciples, and asked, “Why do people shout in anger at each other?” The disciples thought for a while. Then one of them said, “Because we lose our…
Each time you feel the urge to backbite someone, bring this to mind: “This isn’t something that God approves of. My religion says it is wrong and that this will work against me in the Hereafter.” By Ghulam Kabir Das I eagerly listened to him as he went on. He was sharing with me the…
Bayazid, a Sufi mystic, has written in his autobiography, “When I was young, I thought and I said to God, and in all my prayers this was the base: ‘Give me energy so that I can change the whole world.’ Everybody looked wrong to me. I was a revolutionary and I wanted to change the…
