KN-OW-Imran-Nazar-Hosein-An-Islamic-View-Of-Gog-And-Magog-In-The-Modern-World

systems installed in every home. Security in the Villageshould be such that even a woman can walk in and aroundthe Village at night in complete safety and security. Thissecurity of the Muslim Village would make a tremendouspolitical statement to the rest of the beleaguered world.The entire guidance, which emerges from the Qur’ān andSunnah and which must be applied to the task of establishing themicro-Muslim communities in Muslim Villages, needs to beextracted and classified. This is precisely the task that our teacherof blessed memory, Maulana Dr Muhammad Fadlur RahmanAnsari (rahimahullah) has accomplished in his magnificent workentitled ‘The Qur’ānic Foundations and Structure of MuslimSociety’. He has also articulated the concept of Islamic spiritualitywith great care and with quite some detail, and in so doing he hasanswered critics who had not even emerged at the time that thebook was written. But ‘spirituality’ cannot be achieved unlessthere is a prior moral struggle for the achievement of moral purity.One of the major achievements of his book is its detailedexposition and classification of the Islamic moral code and thebeautiful explanation and guidance that it provides of themethodology of Tazkiyah (i.e. moral purification) and of Dhikr (i.e.the fragrance which only true love can deliver when it embracesthe heart and provokes, in the privacy of the heart, a constantremembrance of the beloved).“The Qur’ānic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society”constitutes a textbook, workbook and a navigator for the survivalof Muslims in the stormy seas of the present age. It can be used asa manual that would guide Muslims as they now seek to establishauthentic Muslim communities in remotely-located Muslim223