The most important thing that every person needs is to achieve the realization of God, for there is nothing greater than this realization. In the acquisition of this realization, the parts played by…

The Sunday Guardian | November 17, 2024 According to one point of view regarding the method of tazkiya, the company of a Sufi who has attained the state of realization is a must, because just one…

The Times of India | November 11, 2024 According to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam once remarked: “The remedy for ignorance is asking questions.” (Sunan Abu Dawood, Hadith No. 336) If the…

The Sunday Guardian | November 10, 2024 Tazkiya literally means purification. In the extended sense it means growth. In this respect, tazkiya means intellectual development. The mind is not…

Egypt and China faced the same kinds of international crises, but their respective responses and the subsequent results were different. China successfully managed the crisis, while Egypt failed to do…

War on its own is an act which, once initiated, can never be brought to an end. If active war is discontinued, passive war takes its place. In actual fact there are always two sides in a war: one…

The Iraq War, an armed conflict that began with the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, was led by the United States during the tenure of President George Bush Jr. A military action, it was planned at the…

The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794) observed in his famous work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ‘History is indeed little more than the register of crimes,…