How Should Believers Invite Others to Faith? This article covers the answer to the question: “How Should Believers Invite Others to Faith?“ The aim of sending the Prophets is communicating the divine message, which is the most important and vital obligation incumbent on humanity. That is to say, to enlighten...
Life Requires Striving And Struggle If It Is To Be Successful Belief, with the will-power to struggle, is the first and foremost condition for success in life. Those who have prospered in heart with belief and developed in mind to produce pure and lofty thought, find in each second of...
Chaos And Belief This article covers the relationship between chaos and belief. Belief will once more defeat the forces of atheism, and no one will be able to extinguish the light which God has put in the hearts of people. The earth has so far witnessed many upheavals one after...
The Leading, Exalted Spirits Pure in mind, noble in character, healthy and active, deep- sighted and wise, full of humanitarian feelings towards the whole of mankind and love and compassion for their own people, the leading, exalted spirits are a small group of holy people who were leaders in history,...
Virtues Of Faith This article covers Virtues of Faith. Through the light of belief, man rises to the highest of the high and acquires a value worthy of Paradise. And through the darkness of unbelief, he descends to the lowest of the low and falls to a position fit for...
What Is Polytheism? Polytheism is the belief of multiple deities also usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own Myth and rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either...
God, His Essence And Attributes This article covers God, His Essence and Attributes. God is absolutely other than His creation. The Creator cannot by any means be the same kind of being as that which He created. Although this is self-evident to sense and reason, some people still ask why...
The Obligations Of Faith According To The Torah This article covers The Obligations Of Faith According To The Torah. Faith in God without Idolatry But I am the Lord your God… You shall acknowledge no God but Me, no Savior except Me. (Hosea, 13:4) O Lord… there is no God...
Faith And The Torah This article covers the relationship between Faith And The Torah. Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief. Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree...
Qur’anic Perspective Of The Universe This article covers the answer to the question: “What is the Qur’anic Perspective of the Universe?“ According to Islam, the universe resembles a book written by God, a palace built by Him to make Himself known to conscious beings—primarily us. The universe essentially exists in...
Prophet Muhammad’s Compassion This article covers Prophet Muhammad‘s compassion toward living beings. The adage nowadays is that we all need love. So many people are talking about this. Islam teaches us that God’s act of creating humanity was an act of mercy and compassion. Compassion represents the love between parents...
Story Of Isaiah Among the prophets between David and Zachariah is Isaiah, son of Amisiah. Isaiah appeared before Zachariah and John the Baptist. He is among those who prophesied about Jesus and Muhammad. The king during his time was called Hezekiah (Hazkia). He listened and was obedient to Isaiah in...
Story Of Abraham This is the story of Abraham from the Quran. Abraham was one of the greatest Prophets, one who was called ‘the intimate friend of God’. God’s Messenger took pride and pleasure in his connection with him, saying: I am the one whose coming Abraham prayed for and...
Who Created God? The Great Messenger on one occasion he said: “A day will certainly come when some people will sit with their legs crossed and ask: ‘Given that God created everything, who created God?” The purpose of the question is to avoid the responsibility owed by a creature to...
How Does God Permit Infinite Ugliness and Awesome Calamity? This article covers the answer to the question: “How Does God Permit Infinite Ugliness and Awesome Calamity?“ Question: The creation of devils, who are pure evil, and their harassing the people of belief, and many people not believing and going to...
New Religious Movements And Cults In Popular Culture New religious movements and cults have appeared as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture, while notable representatives of such groups have themselves produced a large body of literary works. Beginning in the 1700s authors in the English-speaking world began introducing members of...
Timeline Of Religion The timeline of religion is a chronological catalogue of important and noteworthy religious events in pre-historic and modern times. This article reaches into pre-historic times, as the bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history. Written history (the age of formal writing) is only c.5000 years...
Will Religion, Supposedly Developed by Primitive People? Will Religion, Supposedly Developed by Primitive People to Explain The Unknown, Eventually Become Unnecessary? Those who answer the above question with a resounding “yes” base their answer upon the following suppositions: People who could not explain or control a certain natural phenomenon attributed...
Tell Us About Our Creator, Our Teachers Do Not Speak Of Him A group of high-school students came to me, saying: “Tell us about our Creator, our teachers do not speak of Him.” And I said to them: “All the sciences you study continuously speak of Him and make known the...
The New Man And Woman Standing on the firm ground of those eternal values, the new man and woman will always look to the future to illuminate the darkness enveloping the world. History has carried us to the threshold of a new age that is open to the manifestations of...