The insistence of heavenly religions, religious leaders, and scholars of morals on self-recognition and self-awareness is entirely a guidance to this innate and rational truth. The Holy Qur’an regards forsaking the soul as the requisite for forsaking Allah and as the punishment of this sin: ‘And be not like those who forsook Allah, so He…
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Surely, it should be known that taqlid holds…
Surely, it should be known that taqlid holds true in worships, transactions, and other practical rules of Islam, but in regard to Usul al-Din (the fundamental principles of Islam) which are matters of belief, one can never have confidence in the views of others and cannot content himself with following them. This is because in…
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Worldly existence is a lower and…
Worldly existence is a lower and defective realm of being, but since it is a nursery for the training of lofty souls and a school for acquiring higher spiritual stations, it is a field for cultivating the Hereafter. In this sense it is the most sublime of the realms of being and the most profitable…
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The strength and the capacity of all the human beings…
The strength and the capacity of all the human beings is surrounded by the Divine decree and Allah’s will. As we see that a person makes an intention to do something but at the last moment his plans are foiled. He is unable to complete the task that he had initiated due to the loss…
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Whatever a human being is able to achieve…
Whatever a human being is able to achieve, is by the strength, the capacity, the intellect and the will power bestowed on him by Allah. By thought and perseverance, he can make use of these favours to distinguish between good and evil, and perform his deeds. Anyone who does not ponder upon the designs which…
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