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LIFE SUPREME 65 numerous affairs of life almost as naturally as the sex urge rises and pulsates within the body. All people, except perhaps the prophets of. God, are assailed from time to time by this satanic force. The problem is how to combat it. We should constantly seek the protection of Allah through earnest prayer and pray for those very persons towards whom our feelings of jealousy extend. The Quran is a cure for all spiritual diseases and a firm conviction that the clouds of jealousy will vanish is the best positive approach coupled with supplication to God to ease and cure our mental fever whether it be high or low. The Promised Messiah was blessed with a mind as cool as ice and himself said: "I have reduced the feeling of resentment and anger in my mental attitude. ". The ideal is never to speak disparagingly of people in a contemptuous tone. If it is necessary to refer to some negative characteristic in a person then it would be better to do so in a quiet manner without bitterness. 'May Allah be our protector from the evil of the envier when he envies. (113:6). FEAR 'He who fears God fears none. (Hazrat Ali). The spread and establishment of Islam in Arabia during the twenty-three years' ministry of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (may peace be on him) was to a great extent due to the extraordinary courage displayed by the early Muslim converts and not the desire for power and booty as some ignorant critics of Islam have contended. No clear minded person believes that three hundred and thirteen ill equipped Muslims marched from Medina to face the might of the powerful Meccan army at Badr for the purpose of winning spoils of war. The truth is that those few loyal and devoted servants of Godoutnumbered by three to one-knew that if they were exterminated by the idolatrous force of Mecca then the very existance of Islam would be at stake. Charged to the full with love for Islam and the. Holy Prophet they fought with the will to win and subsequently secured a resounding victory against the overwhelming forces of. Godlessness. . Muslims today are faced with the gigantic task of reviving the