• The essentiality of knowledge for being a Muslim

  • The greatest favor of Allah

  • Obligation for the favor First step to become a Muslim

  • Is Muslim the name of a race?

  • Meaning of accepting Islam

  • First requirement knowledge

  • Importance of knowledge

• The real difference between a Muslim and a Kafir.

  • Why is there difference between a Muslim and a Kafir.

  • Is the difference only nominal?

  • Real difference --Islam and Kufr

  • Cause of difference--knowledge and deeds

  • Why are Muslims humiliated today?

  • A matter for serious consideration

  • Keenness to acquire knowledge

• Points to ponder

  • Our treatment with Qur'an

  • It is imperative to understand and follow Qur'an

  • Result of injustice to Allah's Book

  • Who is called a Muslim?

  • Meaning of Islam

  • Duties of a Muslim

• The meaning of Kalima Tayyiba

  • Why such a big difference?

  • Purport of Kalima

  • Covenant with Allah

  • Acceptance of Prophet's guidance

  • Responsibilities accruing from affirmation

  • Acceptance of Islam is no favor to God

  • Allah's favor and our behavior

• Kalima Tayyaba and Kalima Khabitha

  • What is Kalima Tayyiba?

  • What is Kalima Khabitha?

  • Difference in results

  • Why are votaries of Kalima in disgrace?

  • Are believers in Kalima Khabitha prospering?

• The purpose of affirming faith in Kalima Tayyiba

  • Every work has a purpose

  • Purpose of reciting Kalima

  • Failure and success in the Hereafter Why is there difference between the sequel of Kafir and Muslim?

  • The purpose of Kalima--Reform of knowledge and deeds Which knowledge is taught by Kalima Tayyiba

    • Servitude to Allah

    • Obedience to Muhammad

  • Deeds must accord with knowledge

• Who is called a Muslim?

• What is Kufr and Islam?

  • Three ways of going astray:

    • Servitude of Nafs

    • Blind following of forefathers

    • Obedience to others than Allah

  • Conditions of Punjabi Muslims:

    • Difference of castes

    • Injustice in inheritance

• Touchstone of Faith

  • Real definition of a Muslim

  • Signs of Hypocrisy:

    • Servitude of Self

    • Adherence to Custom

    • Imitation of other nations

  • A few examples of obedience to Allah:

    • Abstinence from wine

    • Confession of crime

    • Severance of relationship

    • Repentance from old customs

  • Way to God's pleasure

  • Muslims of today

• Real criterion of Islam

  • Difference between Legal and True Islam:

    • Legal Islam

    • True Islam

  • Two kind of Muslims:

    • Partial Muslims

    • Full Muslims

  • The kind of Muslim desired by God

  • Muslim domination due to true obedience

  • Muslim is exclusively loyal to Allah

  • Self-scrutiny

• What for obedience to God?

  • Man's well--being lies in obedience to God

  • Obedience of objects other than Allah--Heresy

  • Real guidance--only from God

  • How to derive benefit from Divine Guidance

  • Meaning of obedience to Allah and His Messenger

• Deen and Shari'ah

  • Meaning of Deen

  • What is Shari'ah?

  • Nature of difference among Shari'ah

  • Nature of difference between juristic schools

  • Detriments of not realizing difference between Deen and Shari'ah

  • Harmfulness of factionalism

• 'Ibadat

  • Meaning of 'Ibadat

  • Results of wrong meaning of 'Ibadat

  • 'Ibadat--Servitude throughout life

• Salah

  • Comprehensive meaning of 'Ibadat

  • Benefits of Salah :

    • Consciousness of being slave

    • Sense of duty

    • Practice of obedience

    • Creating fear of God

    • Awareness of Divine Law

    • Practice of collectivism

  • What do you recite in Salah?

    • Adhan and its effects

    • Wudu'

    • Niyyat

    • Tasbih

    • Ta'awwudh

    • Bismillah

    • Hamd (Praise of Allah)

    • Different surahs of Qur'an :

      • Wal-'Asr

      • Humazah

      • Al-Ma'un

    • Ruku'

    • Sajdah

    • At-Tahiyyat

    • Salah

    • Dua

    • Salam

    • Dua-i-Qunut

    • Salah and character-building

• Congregational prayers (Salah)

  • What qualities does Salah produce ?

  • Complete servitude not possible by one man alone

  • Not possible to fight alone with Satan

  • What is desired is compliance with order

  • Benefits of congregational prayers (Salah) :

    • Assembling on one call

    • Purposeful assembly

    • Mutual sympathy

    • Gathering for a sacred purpose

    • Brotherhood

    • Uniformity in movements

    • Prayers

    • Congregation under an Imam

  • Quality and significance of Imamat :

  • Conditions and rules of Imamat :

    • Pious and virtuous

    • Representative of majority

    • Sympathetic to followers

    • He should vacate if disabled

    • Complete obedience to Imam

    • Admonition of mistake

    • No obedience in sin

• Why has Salah become ineffective ?

  • One example--clock

  • Aim of Muslim Ummah

  • Islamic orders are coherent like parts of clock

  • Joining disparates not useful

  • Those desirous of unexpected results

  • Real reason why religious practices are ineffective

  • Our deplorable condition

• Fasting was made obligatory on every Ummah

  • Why fasting was made obligatory?

    • Aim of life-servitude

    • 'Ibadat--training of servitude

    • Fasting is a hidden 'Ibadat

    • Fasting --sign of strength of Iman

    • One month's continuous training

    • Long practice of obedience

    • Favorable collectives environment for training.

  • Where are the results of 'Ibadat now ?

• The real purpose of fasting

  • A purpose for every work

  • Consequences of considering the outward as real Again freedom from restriction after Ramadan

  • Result of wrong conception of 'Ibadat

  • Fast, source of becoming pious

  • Real aims of fasting:

    • Abstention from lying

    • Faith and self-scrutiny

    • Shield for protection from sins

  • Temptation of goodness

  • Reward for providing Iftar

• Zakat

  • Importance of Zakat

  • Meaning of Zakat

  • Zakat a test

  • Zakat obligatory on Ummahs of all prophets

  • Zakat imperative for Muslim ummah

  • Sign of believers : Salah and Zakat

  • Foundations of Islamic fraternity

  • Conditions of Allah's help

  • Warning to Muslims

  • Doom of defaulters of Zakat

• The real position of Zakat

  • How nearness to Allah is achieved:

    • Test of Wisdom and prudence

    • Test of moral strength

    • Test obedience and dutifulness

    • Test of financial sacrifice

  • Qualities required for Hizbullah:

    • Must not be narrow--minded

    • Must be magnanimous

    • Must be large hearted

    • Must be of pure heart

    • Must spend even in poverty and adversity

    • Must be generous

    • Must remember Allah in all conditions

    • Must not assert obligation

    • Must not hoard wealth

    • Must not seek leave when required for cause of Allah

    • Must be wholeheartedly obedient in the way of Allah

    • Must not consider spending towards the cause of Allah as undue imposition

    • Must not be miserly

• The place of Zakat in collective life

  • Allah’s attribute of beneficence

  • Why inculcation of Infaq? :

    • Man happens to be selfish

    • Results of selfish mentality

    • Individual welfare lies in collective welfare

  • Solution of problems

• General injunctions about Infaq fi Sabilillah

  • Two kinds of directives--General and Special

  • General injunction for remembering Allah

  • Special injunction for remembrance of Allah

  • General injunction of Infaq fi Sabilillah

  • Special injunction for Infaq

  • Brief explanation of general injunction about Infaq :

    • (1) Three conditions for pursuing the right path

    • (2) Two ways of life

  • Modes of spending in the way of Allah

    • (1) Spending should be exclusively for the pleasure of God

    • (2) It should not be to assert favor

    • (3) Good things to be given

    • (4) Give secretly as far as possible

    • (5) Imbeciles not to be given beyond need

    • (6) Defaulters not to be harassed

    • (7) Moderation in almsgiving

  • Those deserving of help

• Special injunctions for Zakat

  • Three injunctions about Zakat

  • Nisab of Zakat on some articles

  • Zakat on Jewellery

  • Those deserving of Zakat:

    • Fuqara

    • Masakin

    • Amilin alaiha

    • Muallafat-ul-Qulub

    • Fir-riqab

    • Al-Gharimin

    • Fi-Sabilillah

    • Ibn-us-Sabeel

  • To whom Zakat be given and to whom not?

  • Need for collective system of Zakat

• Hajj

  • Meaning of Hajj

  • Origin of Hajj

  • Conditions at the time of Abraham

  • Family of Abraham

  • Abraham's exonerative declaration

  • Mountain of calamities

  • Migration

  • Children and their training

  • The greatest of trials

  • Elevation to the Imamat of the world

  • Lot sent to Transjordan

  • Isaac settled in Palestine

  • Isma'il kept in Hejaz

  • Construction of Ka'ba

  • Supplication of Abraham and Ismail

• History of Hajj

  • Custom of idol-worship among Abraham's descendants

  • How Hajj was mutilated

  • Competition of Poets

  • Demonstrations of fake generosity

  • Circumambulation in the nude

  • Concept of sacrifice

  • Sacrilege of sacred months

  • Some self-imposed restrictions

  • Abraham's prayer granted

  • Revival of Abraham's Sunnah

  • End of idol-worship

  • Prohibition of indecent acts

  • Poet's competitions brought to an end

  • End of ostentatious generosity

  • No spattering of blood and flesh of sacrificed animals

  • Prohibition of circumambulation in the state of nudity

  • Transposition of months of Hajj prohibited

  • Orders to take provision

  • Permission to earn livelihood during Hajj

  • End of customs of ignorance

  • Fixation of Meeqat

  • Instruction to maintain peaceful atmosphere

  • Only one slogan, Talbiyah

  • Importance of Hajj as an obligatory act of devotion

• Benefits of Hajj

  • Nature of journey for Hajj

  • Inclination towards virtue and piety

  • Ihram and its conditions

  • Talbiyah

  • Tawaf-i-Ziarat

  • Sa'i between Safa and Marwah

  • Wuquf (stay) at Mina, 'Arafat and Muzdalifah

  • Rami Jimar

  • Blessing and effects of Hajj

  • Hajj--a collective 'Ibadat

• Universal Assembly of Hajj

  • Fruits of Hajj

  • Animation in Muslim world

  • Growth of piety and virtuousness

  • Season of awakening of Islamic world

  • Inspiring spectacle of unity of Millat

  • One aim, assemblage at one centre

  • Greatest movement for establishment of peace

  • Only peace-centre in the world

  • Centre of real equality

  • Our lack of appreciation

  • Method of deriving full benefits from Hajj

• Jihad

  • Real objective of Islam

  • Root of evil--rotten political system

  • First step toward reform--improvement of government

  • Basis of ignoble government--man's rule over man

  • Basis of reform--God's lordship over man

  • Governance--a hard way

  • 'Ibadat--a training course

  • Blessings of Government run by God-conscious persons

• Importance of Jihad

  • Meaning of Deen

  • There cannot be two Deens of a man

  • Every Deen wants power

  • A few examples

  • Deen of the Democracy

  • Deen of the Monarchy

  • Deen of the British

  • Deen of Islam

  • Importance of Jihad in Islam

  • Sign of recognizing a true Momin--Jihad

  • No change possible without struggle

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