The Sunday Guardian

The Prayer for Good Health

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian |June 12, 2017

According to a hadith, the Prophet Muhammad is said to have remarked: “For whomsoever of you the door of supplication is opened, for him the doors of mercy have been opened. And in God’s eyes praying for good health is dearer to praying for anything else.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, hadith no. 3548).

Only God can make a tree

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | Dec 15, 2019

"Nature works," says Emerson, "on a method of all for each and each for all." This sums up the process at work in the universe. There are innumerable forces in nature functioning with amazing coordination, in complete harmony with one another. The whole corresponds to the part and vice versa.

His mercy masters His wrath

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | Dec 1, 2019

Wrath is an attribute of God, and so is mercy. If someone thinks that God created humans in order to make them experience His wrath, this would definitely be an underestimation of God.

It is more correct to say that the reason why God created man was to make him experience His mercy. It is this understanding that is in accordance with God’s glory.