The Sunday Guardian

How man loses out in life

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Sunday Guardian, Oct 14, 2018

The present world is a preview of the Hereafter. Here, a person receives in embryonic form the joys and blessings which God has made fully available in the world to come. This is so that he may see the infinite joys of eternity in the guise of the incomplete blessings of this world—so that he may see one drop of water, and realize that it is indicative of a vast ocean beyond.

Tolerating lesser evil

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Sunday Guardian | Oct 7, 2018

Umair ibn Habib ibn Hamasha, a companion of the Prophet, instructed his son, saying: “O my son, he who refuses to tolerate the lesser evil of a foolish person will have to tolerate the bigger evil of such a person.” (Al-Muʽjam al-Awsat, al-Tabarani)

The greatest news of all

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | September 23, 2018

What a mass of information there is clogging the atmosphere nowadays. Everyone has some message to convey to others. But in all this confusion, there is no one seeking to convey the message of eternal life; there is no one anxious to break the news of salvation and damna¬tion in the world to come.