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Compassion for                                          whether people are capable                                    About

    Humanity                                            of leading their lives      And                               the Quran

                                                        in accordance with         why should we

                                                        His will. It is            not put our trust in

The teaching of the Quran can be summed up              their conduct God when He has already
under two basic headings: (1) Oneness of God:           on earth that guided us to our paths? We
believing in One God and worshipping Him alone;         will determine will, surely, bear with patience
(2) Brotherhood of Mankind: regarding all human         w h e t h e r o r all the harm you do us. So in
beings as equal and according equal rights to all.      not they are God let those who trust put
These two kinds of precepts can be expressed as         deserving of
monotheism and justice.                                                             their trust.
                                                        Paradise in the
                                                                                    The Quran
                                                        next, eternal stage

The Quran tells       Recite                            of life after death.

us that God           what has been                     According to the Quran, Paradise is another name
                                                        for God’s neighbourhood, and in this neighbourhood
has given             revealed to you of the            only those who are sincere in their belief in God and
                                                        have compassion and love for God’s servants will ?nd
innumerable book, and pray regularly.                   acceptance.

blessings to Surely prayer restrains one

h u m a n i t y. from indecency and evil and

Man, as           remembrance of God is                 God has the same compassionate relationship
                                                        with every man as a father has with all his children.
h e b e n e ? t s greater. God has knowledge            Therefore, it is alien to the divine scheme of creation
                                                        that this earthly plane should be marred by hatred,
from this             of all your actions.              killing and violence. It is God’s most cherished desire
                                                        that love should be returned for hatred, and violence
divine bounty,        The Quran                         should be met with peace.
is duty-bound to

offer thanks to his

Benefactor. He is bidden to love and fear God more

than anyone or anything else, and ought to consider

himself accountable.                                                            Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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