SPIRIT OF ISLAM NOVEMBER 2019

5 Spirit of Islam Issue 83 November 2019 the tongue with which he speaks, the hands and feet with which he performs his daily functions. It takes possession of a person, to the exclusion of everything else. His every statement bears the stamp of Islam and his every action becomes dyed in Islamic colours. If Islam is like a stone in water in a person’s life, it is not Islam at all. Faith should be absorbed in a person like dye is dissolved in water. Just as the emotions of love and hate are felt by the whole body, so, when one adopts Islam in the real sense of the word, it becomes an issue affecting one’s whole existence. The Muslim and Islam become inseparably attached to one another. By way of introduction to the Islamic way of life, some sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are mentioned here: “Let him who believes in God and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent; and let him who believes in God and the Last Day honour his neighbour; and let him who believes in God and the Last Day be generous to his guest.” “Fear God wherever you are, and follow up a bad deed with a good one and it will wipe it out, and behave well towards people.” “Righteousness is good-naturedness, and evil is what wavers in your soul that you would not like people to find out about you.” “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” A man came to the Prophet and said: “Messenger of God, tell me something which, if I do it, will win me the love of both God and men.” The Prophet said, “If you renounce the world, God will love you; and if you renounce what people possess, they will love you.” o Maulana Wahiduddin Khan editor@thespiritofislam.org Follow Maulana at h ttp://www.speakingtree.in (The Times of India)