بِسمِ
اللهِ
الرَّحْمَنِ
الرَّحِيمِ Allah, in the name of, the Most
Affectionate, the Eternally Merciful |
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Personality
Development Program
Contribute
to humanity by develop a God-oriented personality!!! |
تعمیر
شخصیت
پروگرام
ایک
خدا پرست شخصیت
کی تعمیر کر
کے انسانیت کی
خدمت کیجیے!!! |
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اردو
اور عربی تحریروں کو بہتر
دیکھنے کے
لئے نسخ اور
نستعلیق
فانٹ یہاں سے
ڈاؤن لوڈ کیجیے
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Strange
Similarities between the Christian & the Muslim Histories |
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Excepting for
the conception of the son-ship of Jesus, there is no fundamental difference between
Christianity and Islam. In their essence they are one and the same; both are
the outcome of the same spiritual forces working in humanity. One was a
protest against the heartless materialism of the Jews and the Romans; the
other a revolt against the degrading idolatry of the Arabs, their ferocious
customs and usages. Christianity,
preached among a more settled and civilized people subject to an organized
government, had to contend with comparatively milder evils. Islam, preached
among warring tribes and clans, had to light against, all the instincts of
self-interest and ancient superstition.
Christianity,
arrested in its progress towards the East by a man of cultured character,
who, although a Jew by birth, was by education an Alexandrian Greek, was
carried to Greece and Rome, and there gathering up the pagan civilization of
centuries, gave birth to new ideas and doctrines, (Christianity ceased to be
Christian، the moment it was transplanted from the
home of its birth. It became the religion of Paul… Alas for the
latter-day professors of Islam! The blight of patristicism has ruined the
blossom of true religion and a true devotional spirit. A Christian preacher
has pointed out with great force the distinction between religion and
theology, and the evils which have followed in his Church from the confusion
of the two. What has
happened in Christianity has happened in Islam. Practice has given way to the
mockery of profession, ceremonialism has taken the place of earnest and
faithful work, — doing of good to mankind for the sake of doing good – good,
and for the love of God. Enthusiasm has died out, and devotion to God and His
Prophet are meaningless words. The earnestness without which human existence
is no better than that of the brute creation, earnestness in right-doing and
right-thinking, is absent. The Moslems of
the present day have ignored the spirit in a hopeless love for the letter.
Instead of Jiving up to the ideal preached by the Master, instead of
"striving to excel in good works; instead of being righteous; instead of
loving God, and for the sake of His love loving His creatures, — they have
made themselves the slaves of opportunism and outward observance…. The present
stagnation of the Mussulman communities is principally due to the notion
which has fixed itself on the minds of the generality of Moslems, that the
right to the exercise of private judgment (ijtihaad) ceased with the early
legists, that its exercise in modern times is sinful, and that a Moslem in
order to be regarded as an orthodox follower of Mohammed should belong to one
or the other of the schools established by the school-men of Islam, and
abandon his judgment absolutely to the interpretations of men who lived in
the ninth century, and could have no Conception of the necessities of the
nineteenth. Among the
Sunnis it is the common belief that since the four Imams, no doctor has risen
qualified to interpret the laws of the Prophet. No account is taken of the
altered circumstances in which Moslems are now plumed; the conclusions at
which these learned legists arrived several centuries ago are held to he
equally applicable to the present day. Among the
Shiahs, the Akhbari will not allow his judgment to travel beyond the dictates
of " the expounders of the law." Mohammed had consecrated reason as
the highest and noblest function of the human intellect. Our schoolmen and
their servile followers have made its exercise a sin and a crime….
Like many of
the ecclesiastics of Christendom, not a few [Muslim jurists and scholars]
were the servants of sovereigns and despots whose demands were not consistent
with the precepts of the Master. Canons were invented, theories started,
traditions discovered, and glosses put upon his words utterly at variance
with their spirit…. justly observes an
English writer, "Just as
the Hebrews deposed their Pentateuch in favor of the Talmud, so the Moslems
have abolished the Koran in favor of the traditions and decisions of the
learned. We do not mean to say that any Mohammedan, if asked what was the
text-book of his religion, would answer anything but the 'Koran;' but we do
mean that practically it is not the Koran that guides his belief or practice.
In the Middle
Ages of Christendom it was not the New Testament, but the Summa Theologica of
Thomas Aquinas, that decided questions of orthodoxy; and in the present day,
does the orthodox churchman usually derive his creed from personal
investigation of the teaching of Christ in the Gospels? Probably if he refers
to a document at all, the Church Catechism contents him; or if he be of a
peculiarly inquiring disposition, a perusal of the Thirty-nine Articles will
resolve all doubts. Yet he too would say his religion was drawn from the
Gospels, it was filtered. In precisely
the same way modern Mohammedanism is constructed, and a large part of what
Moslems now believe and practice is not to he found in the Koran at
all." (Excerpts from
“The Spirit of Islam” by Justice Syed Ameer Ali)
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Unit 1: Relation with God & His Prophets In the name of God, the most Beneficent, the Eternally
Merciful | The
Treasure’s Map | The
Month of Ramadan: What to achieve?
| The Prophet’s Love |
The
Basic Premise of the Religion |
Who
is like You? |
Pure
Monotheism I |
Pure
Monotheism II |
Who deserves the Paradise?
Unit 2:
Elimination of our Negative Personality How to get rid of Poverty? |
The Report of Transparency International
and a Hadith |
Justification
or Admitting One’s Fault |
Artificial
Colors of Glamour |
Religious People & Ostentation |
Character
of Ancient Religious Leaders at Jerusalem |
Attachment
to a Group is irrelevant for Success | Successful Life |
The
Revolution Occurred! |
Form
& Spirit |
Jealousy
& Modern Testing Techniques |
How to overcome
Procrastination? | The
Difference between an Extremist & a Moderate Person Unit 3:
Development of our Positive Personality The Quranic Strategy for Personality Development |
How to get rid of Poverty? |
Character
builds the Nation | The Sermon of Mount |
Success: What is it? |
Success Secrets |
A Positive Attitude affirms the Life |
Road Block |
Thinking after Writing! |
Trust
is Golden |
Getting
off to a good start |
The Lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Unlocking
the Gates to Success |
Admitting
One’s Fault |
Top 10 Qualities of Excellence
Unit 4:
Relationship with Human Beings Backbiting |
Suspicion |
Defamation |
Examining Others with Suspicion |
Are
you killing your family? Unit 5: Our
Responsibility, Vision & Mission The Love of Prophet Muhammad with Knowledge
| Traditional Mentality
| Strange Similarities between Christian
& Muslim Histories | The Relationship of Revelation & Intellect (Part I)
| The Relationship of Revelation & Intellect (Part II)
| The Problem of Aurengzeb Alamgir |
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