The Sunday Guardian

Learn the art of desire management | The Sunday Guardian | 8th July 2012 | Page 12

All men and women are driven by their desires. But they die without fulfilling them. It is this gap between desire and fulfilment that causes frustration.

Now the question is: how to rescue man from this undesirable state? The solution set forth in the Quran is simple and practical: in the present, try to live a need-based life and leave the fulfilment of one's desires for the future, that is, the world hereafter.
 

Bossism’ is a principle of nature | The Sunday Guardian | 1st July ’12 | Page 13

The Quran accepts "bossism" as a principle of nature, it being present in every department of life. The Quran includes only the home in this general list. It says, "Men are protectors (qawwam) of women, because God has made some of them excel others" (4:34).

Another verse reads, "Is it they who apportion the mercy of your Lord? — We raise some of them above others in rank" (43:32).

The beginning and the end | The Sunday Guardian | 24^th June 2012 | Page 12

The first verse of the first chapter of the Quran reads: "All praise is due to God, the Lord of the Universe" (1:1).

The believer must also be a traveller | The Sunday Guardian | 17th June 2012 | Page 12

The believer, according to the Quran, must be a traveller (al-saihoon) (9:112). This is not just in the sense of one who goes on journeys: it actually means one who learns spiritual lessons through tawassum (15:75). Tawassum means to elicit spiritual lessons from material experiences.