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

this task. With the CPS team we started making soft copies of Maulana’s books, articles and Al-Risala English magazine. I volunteered to proof-read the material along with Raazia Siddiqui, Maulana’s grand-daughter. As I had read so many books on Islam by various authors, I realized immediately that this material was different. It was clear, explained Islam in a simple and rational manner that addressed modern educated people like me and my husband completely. Another aspect of these books was that the English was up to standard. The English of books from other publishers had so many grammatical and spelling mistakes, that besides not addressing the minds of the reader, they were not up to standard. We found out that while Maulana wrote in Urdu, it was Prof. Farida Khanam—Apa who actually translated his books from Urdu to English with the help of a British lady, Mrs. Anna Khanna. This made us realize the importance of the role Apa plays in the mission. If it was not for her dedication, English-reading people like me and my husband could have never had access to the writings of Maulana. We would have been completely deprived of God’s message. And it is only under her guidance and supervision that the CPS team has and is translating all of Maulana’s material from Urdu to English so that it reaches the world. We also realized that these books were of a higher publishing standard than books of other Islamic publishers as regards the quality of printing. We found out that this was Dr. Saniyasnain Khan’s contribution, who had set up Goodword Books to arrange for publishing and printing of books of