The Qur’an and Prophetic traditions (hadees/sunnat) use the word qurb to describe the desired relationship of man with Allah. It means closeness, contact and intimate relationship with Him. Allah is always available for a person to come in contact with Him without the need for an intermediary. The moment a person reaches Him out, He responds....

The Qur’an says that everything has been created by Allah. He commands anything to happen and that thing comes into being. “He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth; whenever He decrees something He (merely) says: ‘Be’, and it comes to be.” [The Qur’an 2:117]. Obviously, rooh (spirit) is part of the crea...

ARTICLES OF FAITHThe Qur’an has described five fundamental articles of faith in the following verse:“The Messenger believes, and so do the believers, in the guidance sent down upon him from his Lord: each of them believes in Allah, and in His angels, and in His Books, and in His Messengers. They say: We make no distinction between any o...

Faith means ‘Knowledge and Belief’. TheArabic word Iman, which we have rendered in English as faith, literally means ‘to know’,‘to believe’ and ‘to be convinced beyond the least shadow of doubt’. Faith, thus, is firm beliefarising out of knowledge and conviction. And the man who knows and reposes unsh...