International Award
Al-Risala (English), December 1988, p. 23
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.
International Award
1988 12 December 23 International Award (375)
Seerat Book Award
New Delhi, Nov. 6 – Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, well-known Indian theologian has been honoured the “Seerat Book Award” given annually by the Pakistan Government for outstanding books on the life of the Prophet Muhammad. He has won the award for his book, Muhammad –The Prophet of Revolution published by the Islamic Centre here.
The award carries a reward of $2000 and a citation. The awards were presented by Pakistan President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan in Islamabad recently.
Earlier, in 1983 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has been awarded the same award for his book, Paighambar-e-Inquilab.
This year, the award has gone to his English book which was published in 1986.
The 228-page award-winning book is the culmination of a I5-year fort. The Maulana started working on the project at Lucknow in 1965.
The Hindustan Times (EN), November 8, 1988
The President of the Islamic Centre, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, has been given an International Seerat award for his book in English, Muhammad The Prophet of Revolution, by the government of Pakistan. The announcement was made on the occasion of Id Miladun Nabi.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s works have already been widely hailed internationally. One of his books, AI-Islam Yatahadda (God Arises), is a set study in several Arab universities, including the AI-Azhar University of Cairo.
The book for which the Maulana received this award is a study of the life of the Prophet Mohammad. But it does more than chronicle the events of the Prophet’s life. It presents his mission as a movement of enormous vitality, which serves as a pattern for all to follow. It explains how the Prophet scrupulously avoided all unconnected issues, and concentrated solely on his basic mission – preaching the word of God. It illustrates how he was moved, not by a spirit of vengeance, but by a deep longing to save his fellow-men from doom in the world to come. It shows, moreover, how the revolution in human thought which the Prophet brought about can be repeated in the present day.
The life of the Prophet is a model on which we should base our lives and our struggle for the faith. We hope that the recognition granted to Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s study will serve to increase popular awareness of the realities of that exemplary life.
