The messengers of Allah did not suffice with invitation, promise, and warning. Rather, with the permission of the Lord, they reflected instances of the signs of relationship with divinity and with the infinite source of knowledge and power, so that everyone would understand that resorting to the limited material means is not the sole way…
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The principal privilege of the call of Allah’s messengers…
The principal privilege of the call of Allah’s messengers over that of other reformers is that they remind (the people) that this limited and transient life is not man’s final abode. It rather is a prelude to reach eternal prosperity and it is a bridge to get to an eternal world. SOURCE: SELF-RECOGNITION FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT…
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The issue of free will and predestination…
“The issue of free will and predestination is primarily an issue that concerns man as such and only secondarily involves God and nature. This is because on the one hand, the subject up for discussion is “man” and the question as to whether he is free or predestined? On the other hand, the problem pertains…
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Doubt is both a good and necessary point…
Doubt is both a good and necessary point of transition, even though it is highly undesirable as a station and final destination. The fact that Islam places so much stress on certainty and calls man to think and deliberate alludes to man’s initial state of doubt and ignorance, as well as to the truth that…
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By obtaining what man truly desires…
By obtaining what man truly desires and establishing an existential link with Allah, man reaches the greatest degree of pleasures. The most perfect phase of this develops when the soul totally dispenses with the management of the body, when it pays attention to nothing but Allah, when worldly occupations do not attract its attention and…
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