I have not seen anything as dreadful as the Fire whose evader is asleep and anything as desirable as Paradise whose seeker is asleep. (Prophet Muhammad) Why is it that people do not flee from…

Everyone dreams of everlasting life and unalloyed bliss – in short, of Paradise. But if, believing in Paradise and yearning after it, one does nothing to make oneself fit in the eyes of God to enter…

The fifty-sixth verse of Chapter 51 of the Quran explains the purpose of man’s creation as follows: “I created the jinn and mankind only so that they might worship Me.” (The Quran 51:56) In this…

The freedom which man has been given on earth is not permanent. It has been granted to him for a certain time and for a specific reason: that he may be put to the test. God wishes to see who make…

Everything in heaven and on earth bows to God, but no natural act of prostration can compare to man’s obeisance. Other creatures submit to God involuntarily. Man does so expressly, of his own free…

One who has discovered God becomes close to God even in this world. His spirit is bathed in the light of God. If even the sight of flowers arouses finer feelings in a person, how can one discover God…

These days, they’ve started manufacturing plastic flowers and fruits. They look just like the real thing. But if you smell a plastic flower, it has none of the fragrance of a real flower, and if you…

Muslims today generally believe that they are the ‘chosen people’. This belief is completely alien to Islam. According to the true teachings of Islam, every man and woman is equal in the eyes of God…

It is He who made the sun radiate a brilliant light and the moon shed its lustre, and ordained for it stages so that you may learn to count out the years and [to make other such] reckoning of time.…