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257. Identity
Everything has some sort of identity even if we think it is invisible and do not give it any importance. When a person makes it the aim of his life to fulfill his desires, then in reality that person is overcome by the identity of that desire. If...
256. Mission of God
If a wise, mature, and conscientious person does not know who his parents are, then it does not matter how intelligent he is. An inferiority complex will overcome him. An inferiority complex is such a huge gap in human life that it can turn a per...
255. Ruins
When a nation is involved in the worship of wealth, then it suffers dishonour and shame and ends up ruined. The earth has proof of these things. The owners of castles and the rulers of large kingdoms and magnificent palaces are now scattered in d...
254. Corpse
The dependence of the physical body is on the spirit, but the spirit does not depend on the physical body. The example of this is that the value of the human body without the spirit is only that of a dead body. As long as the spirit remains attac...
253. Waste
From the spiritual point of view, when a baby comes into this world from its mother's womb it has a supply of lights by which it can live for five thousand years. The baby then wastes this stock of lights with its ignorance, false dignity, and os...
252. Unhappy
There is another world like this world of colour and fragrance which is revealed after our death. How unfortunate those of us are who have never tried to travel towards this unseen world. If we act on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PB.U.H.) "Di...
251. Hatred
It had been the message of the Prophets that the material development of God's creatures should be done in such a way that there would be a brotherhood among people. There was to be charity and sincerity among people, and they were to help one an...
250. Quantity
Predetermined quantities at work in each creation distinguish one species from another and every person from every other person. The particles of sand are identical, but with different quantitative combinations of these particles different species...
249. Interpretations
It is a tragedy that Muslims are not even in agreement on the interpretation of the Quran. There are infinite explanatory sayings about each verse of the Quran, and most of them are mutually contradictory. Yet the credentials of the writers of th...
248.Beginning
A time came when sadness was placed as a guard on the happy life. It was frozen and silenced. Movement and restlessness were unknown. God wished for this loneliness to come to an end, for silence to turn into movement, and for creatures to be man...
247. Angels
Oh, human being! Tear away the blinders that hinder your memory screen and peer inside. Do you not remember those pleasant days when you used to breathe the air of freedom (Heaven)? There was neither pangs of hunger nor thirst, nor did the hot su...
246. Attraction
The company of friends creates the same thoughts and inclinations that are already working in the friends. One should increase hearty attachments only with those whose interests, thoughts, cares, and struggles are in accord with the life of Proph...
245. Freedom
This world is a magical place. It is not easy for wisdom to understand this magic, for wisdom does calculations of minor things. If you think deeply you will see that the whole world is a toy made of sand whose fate is eventually to break down an...
244. Mischief
How strange it is that a person with full power, ability, and intelligence thinks it is to his favor to get close to evil. Remember that all such things, which are temporary, are not real, and all those things which are not real cannot come close...
243. Discrimination
  Love is total sincerity. Hatred is a symbol of rage and fury and is based on the features of revenge. Irritation and anger are forms of hatred. The Quran says that "Those who do not get angry and who excuse others, these are the people...
242. Mortal
Every particle of the earth is the reflection of the picture of Adam. But when this particle takes on a shape and is embodied, then the journey of mortality starts. Man is mixed up in the sand and becomes sand. The particles of sand, like the cha...