The Sunday Guardian

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | December 22, 2013

In the creation of mankind and the world, there is an underlying purpose and order. If we ponder over creation, we find perfect order and harmony in the universe, thus it is our duty to seek and find out our true purpose in life.

In this perfect world of nature, we find that man's life is full of imperfections. Many of our desires are left unfulfilled. Death stands out as an inevitable fact that each one of us must face.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | December 15, 2013

In 1931, an Indian boy was born in a poor family in Madras. He came from a poor background and his family couldn't afford his school fees. After completing school, he distributed newspapers in order to financially contribute to his father's income. The poor condition of this boy proved to be a challenge for him. He had no option other than to accept this challenge, so he started working very hard.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | December 8, 2013

The Prophet Muhammad said, "Simplicity is a part of faith." Absence of simplicity is the complex methods adopted in conducting our daily lives. Methods requiring greater resources, time and effort but satiating only our ordinary needs; methods that require the use of our intellectual faculties only for worldly pursuits, while they could have been rightly used for seeking knowledge, intellectual and personality development, spiritual growth and the promotion of global peace.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | December  1,  2013

Ernest Shackleton is best known for his expeditions to Antarctica. On his third expedition, he faced a very serious situation when his ship sank. He and his group of twenty-seven men were literally stranded on ice, for they were drifting aimlessly in the wild southern seas. Apparently, they had no hope of survival. They remained on the floating ice for six months and spent the next four months on Elephant Island before they were rescued. In the end they returned safely to their homes.