Quotes from Khurram Murad

While addressing Ab? Dharr the Prophet told him: "Did you know that as one sets out to call on one's Muslim brother, one is accompanied by seventy thousand angels who supplicate for the one, invoking Allah thus: 'O our Lord! He joins company for Your sake only. Help him accomplish his visit'." (Bayahaq?)

The secret of success, however, consists in one's resolve, perseverance and confidence, first and foremost in God, and then in one's own self, under His Grace. One must be prepared to bear with failures and lapses.

the event of the 'golden calf ' stands for love of this-worldly things as objects of worship (v. 51). This event happened soon after the great blessing of Bani Israel's deliverance from the Pharaoh. The Book and the covenant had yet to come. This love, when it competes with and overwhelms the love for Allah, is the root cause of decadence.

The Prophet Muhammad has said: 'Whoever Allah wishes good for, He bestows upon him a deep understanding of the Din.' (Bukhari, Muslim.)

Islam does not subscribe to the type of asceticism where we purify our hearts and yet remain immersed in political, economic or social corruption. Tazkiya must encompass our entire life – the privacy of our thoughts as well as their social manifestations in our daily life. Everything must be in conformity with Allah's will.

While improvement in your habits and actions is a life-long process, the desire to achieve it can thus be sparked in a moment.

Fear of death and an overpowering love of this-worldly possessions sap and destroy the strength of a community. If people fear death, then death becomes the fate of their community. Those who have no fear of death, life is their destiny.

Tilawa or recitation is an act in which your whole person – soul, heart, mind, tongue and body – should participate. Thus, to recite the Quran, as it deserves to be recited, is not a light task; but neither is it impossible nor difficult. Otherwise, the Quran could not have been meant for everyone; nor could it be the mercy and the guidance that it surely is.

The Quran explains: Whosoever holds on to Allah, he has already been guided onto a Straight Way. [Al Imran 3: 101.] CHARACTERISTICS

once you come to the Qur'?n as the first believers did, it may reveal to you as it did to them, make partners of you as it did of them. And only then, instead of being a mere revered book, a sacred fossil, or a