The Economic Times | April 16, 2025 Adopting violent methods gives your opponent justification for violent retaliation, but if you adopt peaceful methods, the opposite party has no grounds for using…

The Times of India A young man I know is a government employee in Delhi. I have known him for a long time. One day, I had gone out for some work, and when I came home at night, I was told that he…

The Sunday Guardian During the rule of Sultan Abdur Rehman An-Nasir of Andalusia, Spain was afflicted by a drought. Mere survival became very difficult. The Sultan sent an important person to Qazi…

When persecution at the hands of the Quraysh became insufferable, the Prophet asked some of his Muslim followers to emigrate from Makkah to Abyssinia. There, they were given refuge and found peace…

Mysticism is generally called tasawwuf in India and irfan (realization) in Iran. To me irfan is the most appropriate word, for mysticism, in actual fact, is another name for the realization of inner…

Soulveda | April 15, 2025 A group of sightseers around Delhi zoo in the winter of 1985, looked at various animals in turn then paused in admiration before a great rarity—a solitary white lion which…

The Sunday Guardian | April 20, 2025 Dua is not something technical. It is an external expression of an internal tempest. When a person discovers God in all His glory and greatness, then, while…

What is Paradise? Paradise is the supreme reward which God gives to His special servants for their deserving actions. Paradise is a world of unique blessings, admission to which is reserved for the…

Once on a train journey I overheard a conversation between two gentlemen who were sitting opposite me, one a Hindu, the other a Muslim. The Hindu said, “It seems that Islam is an intolerant religion…