Maj Gen R Muhammad Tahir

The Qur’an and the purpose of life

ONE can ask a question, why so much carnage and bloodshed in this world. Why are we so susceptible to sin? Why couldn’t God make…

Farid-ud-Din Attar (1145-1221): Conference of birds 

Attar remains as one of the formative influences on Rumi. Rumiis said to have met Attar, when as a young boy he along with his…

Signs of God

QURAN says, “Sa Nurehimbaayatena, filafaq, wafeanfasahum, hatayatabayana la hum, inulhaq.” “We (God) will show them our signs in Scriptures, in Afaq (Nature) and within themselves…

Farid-ud-Din Attar (1145-1221): Conference of birds

THE Seven Valleys. The birds began their journey in thousands and the first is:-Valley of the Quest. Have you ever thought what was that put…

Farid-ud-Din Attar (1145-1221): Conference of birds

  THE Journey Begins. Allah says in Quran, “You want to find me; I am closer to you than your Jugular vein.” In Hadees attributed…

Farid–ud-Din Attar (1145-1221), conference of the birds    

THE author of this well-known book is Farid-ud-din Attar. Attar, who died in the year 1221, was a perfume seller. There is a story that…

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali (1059 -1111)

IMAM Ghazzali quoting Prophet (PBUH) said, “The people who will be most severely tortured on the Day of Judgment will be those scholars, who did…

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali (1059 -1111)  

IMAM Ghazzali literally describes the entire planet as wayfarers. In Christian tradition, it’s the voice of Dante’s, ‘The Divine Comedy,’ that you are on an…

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali (1059 -1111)

IMAM al-Ghazzali belongs to such a rarified community like Socrates, Aristotle, Plato or the great Muslim sages of the East. Knowing him at the deeper…

The true dimensions of the divine

MOST people live their lives with numbed hearts, whereas faith is the journey of uncovering and discovering the higher self. Quran says, “He who is…

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