l-Islam is the name God selected for the message He delivered to mankind through His handpicked messenger, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib of Makkah (blessings of Allah and peace be with him). God describes this message (5:3) both as ‘deen’ for mankind and as His personal favour and grace. Moreover, this grace carries the stamp of completeness. Al-Islam connotes peace obtained through total and willing submission to God’s will. Thus it is clear that the very nomencl...

Right from the First Prophet, Adam (blessings of Allah be with him) down to the Last Prophet, Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be with him), the strategy of Islam has been one and the same – inculcation of three basic tenets into human mind: faith in the Unity of God, faith in the institution of Prophethood and faith in the hereafter.

The various Divine Prophets, who had brought Divine Books, revealed on them by God Almighty, were living examples of faith in the said tene...

Humans from time immemorial to the pre...

For almost a decade Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be with him) had been inviting the Makkan pagans about their obligation to their Creator and Sustainer, and yet he found no more than a few dozen takers to God’s message. Taif is about 50 miles east of Makkah. Muhammad walked the burning sand and barren lands to Taif to see if the people there would be more receptive to his simple message:

There is only one God.

Why worship idols when only God deserves human sub...

Children are born with an amazing ability to imagine, but the narrow confines of superiority complexes and bigotry suffocate imagination.  In religion, culture, race, and society, each group of people has defined itself until it has confined itself and cannot imagine a world where all people are of one accord.  It is the lack of imagination that has perverted our world and subjected it to constant anguish and turmoil. 

Like the One God with multiple attributes, humanit...

“We found you an orphan, O Muhammad, and gave you shelter.” So reads the Qur’an. Is this, then, the springboard of the divine inspiration that brought Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be with him) out of the sands of then barbaric Arabia to launch the world’s greatest revolution and social transformation, the advent of democracy long before it was institut-ionalised in Western conventions? Was this, then, the heartsblood of human compassion that shaped the Prophe...

World peace is a possibility. It is no utopia. It is not a mirage, or a hallucination. It is obviously not any day-dream. There is only one proviso. Man must accept Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be with him) as the Saviour, which he is undoubtedly.

World peace needs a proper code of conduct and role model. The teachings of the Prophet provide the desired code of conduct (i.e. the law) and the life of the Prophet is the reference point, the role model. Men need the cod...

The 20th century witnessed a profound “explosion” in every walk of life. Be it ‘knowledge explosion’, ‘technological explosion’, ‘information explosion’ or ‘population explosion’. Go further and you will discover that it was not only knowledge or population that exploded but some “little boy” and “fat man” also exploded (in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Besides two horrendous world wars, peace was constantly threat...

Some religions will say love is the core of their being and it is, undoubtedly, a highly commendable and endearing quality.

But the Islam brought to us by the Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be with him) is based on a charter of social justice and fairness regardless of any individual's beliefs, skin colour or nationality.

And it is that social justice which brings many new converts into Islam …the fastest growing religion in the world today.

Anyo...

Looking at the world scenario prior to the birth of the Holy Prophet we find there ...

Moral means “principles of right and wrong” and morality implies “a particular syste...

All things that God has created in this universe are created in due proportion and measure both quantitatively and qualitatively. God has declared in the Quran: “Verily, all things have We created by measure” (54:49). He says: “We produced therein everything in balance.” In the universe there is enormous diversity and variety of form and function within it and its various elements there is fulfilment of man's welfare and evidences of the Creator's magnanimity.

The students of Jamia Millia Islamia organised an interactive session on the life and message of Prophet Muhammad (peace be to him) on March 13. The interactive session was preceded by one short lecture on the life of the Prophet by Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Iqbal Mulla, and another lecture on the teachings of the Prophet by Professor Dr. Muhammad Rafat. 

Iqbal Mulla described the life of the Prophet by citing examples showing the love, affection and care bestowed upon the ...

Use any term, word or expression which may sound even remotely insulting to the Jews, the very next moment you would be accused of being anti-Semitic. You may have to scamper for cover to save yourself from the barrage of verbal bombardment from all sides. In the post-World War-II years there is no dearth of film-makers, writers, artists and journalists, especially in the West, who have to tender apology for even unwittingly hurting the sentiment of the community which wrongly claims that it ...