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

to come to CPS and thereafter decided to dedicate my life for this mission. I earnestly set about trying to absorb everything from Maulana’s lectures and books. I slowly started understanding the spirit of Islam and how I could inculcate it in my life, so Islam for me can become a living Islam, rather than an appendage religion. And the CPS members became a spiritual family for me. Finding My Role in the Mission After a few weeks I approached Maulana and asked him, “Maulana why are you giving lectures to only a few people in this room? The whole world needs to understand Islam in the universal way you explain it.” He smiled at me and replied: “Who is stopping you? You take it to the world.” I was spellbound again. When I had earlier contacted the many religious institutions I had come across and asked them if I could help them in any way, I was never encouraged. And here, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan was giving me an open invitation to take his message to the world. This was the answer to my prayers. God was guiding me to His Mission. Maulana’s words had a tremendous effect on me. My husband and I decided to dedicate ourselves to this Mission. We realized that there were two things that needed to be done, one the material needed to be preserved and secondly it needed to be spread to people globally. We decided to start the preservation exercise with Maulana’s English books. Navdeep put his office people on