One who has no hate in his heart will enter heaven
Al-Risala (English), December 1985, p. 3
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
One who has no hate in his heart will enter heaven
1985 12 December 3 One who has no hate in his heart will enter heaven (89) The Prophet was sitting with some companions one day. “There is a person coming here down from the mountains who is one of the companions of paradise.” the Prophet said. The companions immediately saw someone appearing on that path. They greeted him, and told him that the Prophet had described him as one of the companions of paradise. “What do you do that is so special?” they asked. “Nothing in particular,” he replied. “All I can say is that I hold no rancour in my heart towards any Muslim.”
Remote Control
1985 12 December 3 Remote Control (256) One of the terms that has recently been coined as a result of scientific discoveries and inventiveness in technology is Remote Control, – control from a distance without any material link, a method now frequently used with great success in a wide diversity of fields. The signals are sent from a base control point in coded form, to any machine or vehicle which has to be operated in a situation where manning or wire links prove impossible, for example in moving vehicles, aeroplanes, space probes and so on.* As a rule, receivers remain operative all of the twenty-four hours so that, for example, in a space flight, defects or aberrations may be immediately monitored and rectified.
* The most sophisticated use of remote control is the direction and supervision of orbiting spacecraft.
It is regrettable that this remarkable, high-precision invention should also have become a tool for terrorists. It has given them hitherto inconceivable opportunities for committing murder and mayhem, and holding governments and individuals alike to ransom, thereby causing untold distress. The bomb which was exploded with such disastrous results near the motor car of the Emir of Kuwait on the 25th of May 1985 was operated by remote control.
But whether we view this system in a positive or negative way, it serves as a fine analogy to a great but unseen reality: God’s invisible control of the expanding universe. When divine instrumentality is grasped as being on a parallel with remote control, it becomes more understandable and explicable in terms of purely human inventiveness.
