Leave to Me the creature whom I created bare and alone! To whom I granted resources in abundance, and sons to be by his side! To whom I made life smooth and comfortable! Yet is he greedy that I [Continue Reading...]

The Qur’an gives a detailed account of human nature. All the corruption and indecent personality traits of unbelievers are mentioned as well as the attributes of believers. The attributes of [Continue Reading...]

Ignorant people often resort to demagogy to justify themselves. This is a method by which they maintain their rights, or prestige, by using emotional, dishonest or oblique arguments rather than [Continue Reading...]

 All through their lives, certain people pursue a flawless image for themselves. Their efforts center around one goal: to be perfect and to look perfect. This is a natural consequence of finding it [Continue Reading...]

“Righteous deeds” (amelunsalihan) are one of the key concepts of the Qur’an. In Arabic, the word “righteousness” comprises the meanings of good, beneficial and right. In [Continue Reading...]

Death is considered to be an end and a final destruction by those who do not believe in the Hereafter. This is a flawed perception however because death is not an end but a beginning. For believers, [Continue Reading...]

One of the most important factors that people use to inactivate their conscience is their seeing themselves self-sufficient in everything. For instance, when asked about their observance of Islam, [Continue Reading...]

In the world in which we live, Allah bestows many favours on man. All the needs of each living being are benevolently met; no detail is forgotten. Let’s think about ourselves as examples. From [Continue Reading...]

Nothing on earth is created in vain, but rather with wisdom. Understanding this fact depends on the wisdom of people themselves. One whose faith and consequently whose wisdom and prudence increase, [Continue Reading...]

Some people who say they are acting in the name of religion may misunderstand their religion or practice it wrongly. For this reason, it is a mistake to form any idea of that religion from the [Continue Reading...]

Occasionally a person faces various physical and spiritual sorrows and troubles in the world. Amongst these are feelings so intense that they cannot be compared with any other physical pain. This [Continue Reading...]

The South Asian earthquake of 26 December 2004, the largest in the last 40 years and fifth largest since 1900, registering 9 on the Richter scale, and the tsunami that followed it, caused a disaster [Continue Reading...]