Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.
AGA KHAN IIIThe creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought.
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Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
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The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought.
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Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time.
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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
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Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
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There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam.
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Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
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