ME AND MAULANA: A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION OF WAHIDUDDIN KHAN - John M. Butt

Once when asked by Naghma that why is that your message is not being taken to the world, people really need this guidance, Maulana replied, “Apko kisne roka hai. Aap kariye yeh kam.” This was the starting point of our association with CPS International, the NGO of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Today with God’s grace CPS has become a movement. I truly believe that this is God’s Mission and each person in this mission has been picked by God Almighty to perform a specific role. As soon as his role will finish that person will be taken away. Maulana’s role was to provide the ideology of the mission of explaining Islam as it is in the modern, scientific idiom so that it addresses the mind of the modern man. Once he completed this task he was taken away by God. So we should first understand our role and perform it till our last breath. Inshallah we will all meet in heaven. –CPS International Member MY JOURNEY TO GOD AND HIS MISSION Dr. Naghma Siddiqi, Delhi I have been trying to pen down something for the Maulana’s Special Edition of Al-Risala for some time now. However every time I start to think about Maulana since his passing,