Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Islam in Life | Al-Risala July, 1987
In the year 9 A.H., the Prophet of Islam led an expedition to Tabuk. Some Muslims had valid excuses precluding their participation in this expedition. With regard to them, this verse of the Quran was revealed:
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Islam in Life | Al-Risala, April 1987, pp. 31-32
When Prophet Muhammad brought the message of Islam to the people of Mecca (the Quraysh), they did not find it acceptable. They could not understand how the religion of Muhammad could be true and that which they had inherited from their forebears be false. Fired with the pride of their own religion, they said to the Prophet:
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Islam in Life
Maulana Mohammad Ilyas, founder of Tablighi Jamaat–a worldwide Muslim reform movement with its center in New Delhi–used to issue this instruction to preaching groups that he sent out. “Lower your gaze,” he would tell them. “Go out with thoughts of God in your heart, His remembrance on your lips …, a serious outlook, a sense of responsibility, and your journey will be easy if you advance in unison.” Any group, which adopts these characteristics, is bound to be successful.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Islam in Life
Reviewing modern, scientific civilization, a commentator has made the very pertinent observation that it is not invested with ideological permanence. This seems quite true when we consider that Copernicus replaced Ptolemy, Newton replaced Copernicus, and Einstein replaced Newton.
