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Sunday Guardian | June 09, 2024
God created men and women with special blessings. These blessings are basically of two kinds. One of these, pertaining to His creation, is a human being having been…
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Speaking Tree Blog | November 06, 2023
The Quran promotes modest behaviour, its culture being that of modesty—an incomparable virtue. The translation of the relevant verse of the chapter Al-Furqan (…
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In his book The Mysterious Universe, the British scientist Sir James Jeans elaborating on man and the universe, writes: ‘It appears that man has strayed into a world which was not made for him.’
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If you have a super-telescope that can view the entire universe, you will first of all see that rare planet called earth. You will observe that, amidst the totally lifeless universe, this tiny planet…
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One important quality of the Quran is that it gives us only basic, but essential principles, often resorting to reiteration to emphasize them. On the contrary, non-basics, or matters relating only to…
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Scholars have defined maarifah as being man’s first obligation. It would be more precise to say that maarifah is the purpose of life. The life before death is the beginning of maarifah, and the life…
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The Sunday Guardian | April 29, 2023
What is maarifah? Literally, maarifah means realization. In religious terms, maarifah means man’s realization of God, his Creator. He awakens in him the profound…
