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

Salam and Sab TV. Simultaneously the lectures started being placed on youtube.com. To take the message to the world we decided to prepare a website and place all the material online, to make it accessible to people at large. This became a reality in the form of www.cpsglobal.org. All of the mission magazines, articles, books, youtube.com videos and other material was placed on the site. It became and continues to be a one-stop platform for all of Maulana’s material. Quran Translations and Commentary I had always wanted to understand the Quran. I remember reading the English translation and Commentary of the Quran by Abdullah Yusuf Ali that my parents had given to me in my teens. Although I read it many times, I could hardly understand the purpose of my life given in the Quran. Then I had the opportunity to be a part of the English Translation and Commentary of the Quran by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, edited by Prof. Farida Khanam which were published in 2009 and 2013 respectively. On reading these I felt our translations were clear and easily understandable and addressed my mind, while other translations and commentaries were vague and confusing. When I asked Apa about this she explained that other translations of the Quran in English were made by people who were language experts, however they did not have a deep understanding of the Quran. As Maulana has a deep understanding of the Quran and Islam, his translation is clear and brings out the message of the Quran, which is ma‘rifah