“Windows To Spirituality”
For The Conquest and Dominion of Hearts For The Conquest and Dominion of Hearts is about morality and human virtues. Over the last few centuries mankind have suffered hardships after hardships, travelling around pits of ‘death’. Their struggles for deliverance and relief have all resulted in new calamities. During this...
The Importance Of Breast-Feeding Breast-feeding is extremely important for the mother’s own health, as well as that of her baby. The propaganda in the sixties and seventies of some materialistic physicians in cahoots with baby-food manufacturers tried to throw doubt on the value of breast-feeding and to present it, especially...
A Mother’s Prayer This article (A Mother’s Prayer) has been published in Fountain Magazine in July 1993. I was allowed to stay in the hospital at my son’s bedside not as his mother but as a doctor. He was taken into care in a special room in the hospital, along...
Profound Compassion To consider the good, the welfare and happiness of others and to prefer them above one’s own, to feel compassion for their misfortunes as if they were one’s own, to take on the responsibility for the problems of all mankind and to pray continually for their salvation –...
Biology And Religion This article covers the relationship between biology and religion. Today, as the prestige of materialism and atheism declines, more and more scientists believe that religion is so essential it cannot be abandoned. Mankind will not be able to achieve happiness without it. But enemies of reality and...
Individualism And Solitude Many of the fundamental doctrines and attributes of Western civilization are a mixture of Greek-Roman values and a distorted Christianity. They are ultimately derived from ancient, pagan myths, one of the best harms of which is the legend of Prometheus who ‘stole’ fire from the gods at...
83. Surah Al Mutaffifin (Those Who Deal in Fraud) Name The Surah Al Mutaffifin name is derived from the very first verse; Wayl-ul-lil mutaffifin. Period of Revelation The style of the Surah and its subject matter clearly show that it was revealed in the earliest stage at Makkah, when surah after...
77. Surah Al Mursalat (The Winds Which Are Sent) Name The Surah Al Mursalat takes its name from the word wal-mursalat in the first verse. Period of Revelation Its subject matter bears full evidence that it was revealed in the earliest period at Makkah. If this Surah is read together with...
76. Surah Al Insan (Man) Name The Surah Al Insan is called Ad-Dahr as well as Al-Insan after the words occurring in the first verse. Period of Revelation Most of the commentators, including Allama Zamakhshari, Imam Razi, Qadi, Baidawi, Allama Nizam ad-Din Nisaburi, Hafiz Ibn Kathir and many others, regard it as a...
60. Surah Al Mumtahina (The Woman Under Questioning) Name In verse 10 of Surah Al Mumtahina it has been enjoined that the women who emigrate to dar al-Islam (the Islamic State) and claim to be Muslims, should be examined hence the title Al-Mumtahinah. The word is pronounced both as mumtahinah and as mumtahanah, the meaning...
49. Surah Al Hujaraat (The Private Apartments) Name The Surah Al Hujaraat takes its name from verse 4 in which the word hujurat has occurred. Period of Revelation Traditions show and the subject matter of the Surah also supports the same that this Surah is a collection of the commandments and...
43. Surah Az Zukhruf (The Ornaments of Gold) Name It is derived from the word zukhruf-an which occurs in verse 33 of the Surah Az Zukhruf. Period of Revelation It could not be known from any authentic tradition, but a study of its subject matter shows that this Surah also was...
Islamic Perspective On Knowledge And Learning This article covers the Islamic Perspective on Knowledge and Learning. Progress in knowledge and technology may be likened to the widening ripples caused by a pebble thrown in a pool of water. All civilizations have benefited from the knowledge of their predecessors and made...
The Necessity Of Religion This article covers the importance and necessity of religion. To understand the world and the spirit of man in it; to understand the nature and the worth of religion to man; to understand how, if there is no religion, the world becomes the darkest dungeon and...
Good Ethical Conduct And High Virtues What are the ways of internalizing good ethical conduct and high virtues so as to make them a part of our nature? Virtues such as sincerity (ikhlas1), loyalty, refraining from backbiting or suspicion2 are among the essentials of good conduct every believing person must...
Regrets About Science And Technology The general atmosphere and conditions surrounding us promise great happiness so long as science and technology with all their facilities and fruits are devoted to the service of humanity. Today, we are as exposed to great calamities and dangers as we have open to us...
Water For Life The human being’s biological need for water is modest. A dozen or so cupfuls a day are all that are required for survival. There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the...
37. Surah As Saaffat (Those who set the ranks) Name The name is derived from the word was saaffat with which the Surah As Saaffat begins. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the style show that this Surah probably was sent down in the middle of the Makkan period, or perhaps...
73. Surah Al Muzzammil (The One Who is Covered Up) Name The Surah Al Muzzammil has been so designated after the word al-muzzammil occurring in the very first verse. This is only a name and not a title of its subject matter. Period of Revelation The two sections of this Surah...
114. Surah An Nas (Mankind) Please note that the following introduction is for both Surah Al Falaq (113) and Surah An Nas (114). Name Although these two Surahs of the Qur’an are separate entities and are written in the Mushaf also under separate names, yet they are so deeply related mutually and...
