MY THOUGHTS ON MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN - Dr. Rajat Malhotra

Muslims. I conveyed this to Maulana in my first meeting in 1986. I told him that his writings are on today’s intellectual plane and the minds of ordinary Muslims are not ready for it yet. That was one of the reasons why some people would oppose it in their ignorance. Praise be to God, now his literature has gained much acceptance today, 60 years after it was written. The number of its readers all over the world has reached millions. Several teams have been formed and are working all over the world to spread his literature. The prominent themes that appear in different ways in all of Maulana’s literature are: The realization of God with all his Glory, Spirituality, heaven and hell, self-purification, personality development in the light of Qur’an and Sunnah, life management, etc. The titles of the books are: Kitab-e-Marifat, Allahu Akbar, Sirat-e-Mustaqeem and so on. Maulana has been a very studious scholar. According to my study, Maulana through his studious efforts has redefined and reapplied many principles of the Qur’an and Sunnah and has further drawn the attention of other scholars to work in this direction. One can see his work in this direction in these Urdu books: Tajdeed-e-Deen, Fikr-e-Islami, Deen-oShariat, Masael-e-Ijtehad, etc. Islam is basically a religion of peace. This aspect of Islam is well exposed and can be seen in some of his English books, Islam and Peace, Islam and Non-Violence, Jihad Peace and Intercommunication Relations in Islam, Ideology of Peace, Age of Peace, The Prophet of Peace, True Jihad etc. Maulana has inspired people to build one’s own personality