Tazkiya literally means purification. In the extended sense it means growth. In this respect, tazkiya means intellectual development.
The mind is not something stagnant, it...
One quality of the godly person described in the Quran is the willingness to learn lessons (15:75). Learning lessons means recognizing some internal qualities...
Intellectual development is undoubtedly the most important requirement of a human being. Through it, a man becomes perfect. Through it, a man succeeds in...
I once penned an article entitled ‘Realization—The Purpose of Humanity’. Almost immediately after it appeared in print, (Al-Risala, September 2010) a reader called to...
According to the Quran, worship of God controls one’s character. In chapter al-Ankabut (The Spider), the Quran says:
Surely prayer restrains one from indecency and...
According to researchers at University of California, Berkeley, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections—the most intense eruptions on the sun sent a pulse...
Ernest Psiachari (1883-1914), a French writer, was in his youth a free-thinker and an atheist. But later he reverted to Christianity. Grandson of the...
On the insertion of a one-rupee coin, an automatic weighing machine at the airport ejects a neatly printed card showing one’s weight.
Fascinated by this...
Reviewing modern, scientific civilization, a commentator has made the very pertinent observation that it is not invested with ideological permanence. This seems quite true...
