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Six Qualities of the Truly Successful

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Six Qualities of the Truly Successful

There are many places in the Holy Quran, where the verses speak about the attributes of the ones who want success in this life and the hereafter. The first such place is in Surah Al-Baqarah, the second chapter.

The six qualities mentioned in these verses are:

1. Accept the Holy Quran as the Book of guidance as a God-conscious person
2. Belief in the unseen
3. Offer and establish prayer
4. Spend in the way of Allah from what He has given
5. Believe in the Holy Quran and the divine books sent to earlier Prophets of God
6. Believe in the After Life.

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The Tongue

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Editor's Comments:
Today's world is filled with cell phone talks and texts, 24x7 radio and TV programs, emails, and Social networking (Facebook, ...). It appears that we talk, text, see and hear a lot more than what it was used to be. The atmosphere is filled with all sorts of waves like wireless networks and so on.

Do we use our tongue, hands, eyes and ears for useful purposes or is it mostly talk, text and see in vain - purposes which have no benefit here or the hereafter?

Let us read the below article on The Tongue which is based on a Jumuah Khutbah.

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Ch 4: RIGHTS OF ENEMIES AT WAR

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• human rights
• jihad
• war

After dealing with the rights of the citizens of an Islamic State, I would like to briefly discuss the rights which Islam has conferred on its enemies. In the days when Islam came into focus the world was completely unaware of the concept of humane and decent rules of war. The West became conscious of this concept for the first time through the works of the seventeenth century thinker, Grotius. But the actual codification of the 'international law' in war began in the middle of the nineteenth century. Prior to this no concept of civilized behaviour in war was found in the West. All forms of barbarity and savagery were perpetrated in war, and the rights of those at war were not even recognized, let alone respected. The laws which were framed in this field during the nineteenth century or over the following period up to the present day, cannot be called 'laws' in the real sense of the word. They are only in the nature of conventions and agreements and calling them 'international law' is actually a kind of misnomer, because no nation regards them binding when they are at war, unless, of course, when the adversaries also agree to abide by them. In other words, these civilized laws imply that if our enemies respect them then we shall also abide by them, and if they ignore these human conventions and take recourse to barbaric and cruel ways of waging war, then we shall also adopt the same or similar techniques. It is obvious that such a course which depends on mutual acceptance and agreement cannot be called 'law'. And this is the reason why the provisions of this so-called 'international law' have been flouted and ignored in every way, and every time they have been revised, additions or deletions have been made in them.

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