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

I offer my deep-felt condolences to all the family members and members of CPS International–Center for Peace and Spirituality, for the huge loss. –Lama Doboom Tulku I just received news yesterday that yet another of our ‘Mountains’ has passed. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925 in a small village in India, I was graced to meet some 20 years ago in Harrow when he was on a rare visit to the UK. He very kindly received me and my young daughter in his hotel room where he was staying. I immediately asked if I could photograph him the following day which we did in the gardens of the hotel. I was always struck by his deep calmness, compassion and inner beauty. I always wished I had the opportunity to rephotograph him as he became only more luminous in his later years. Unfortunately, I was unable to make that journey. He spent a lifetime serving God and people. One small consolation for us is that when these great people die, they become more active in the spiritual world. –Peter Sanders A PERSON PERSONIFIED – PAR EXCELLENCE! Man of Peace Mission & the work of Hazrat Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is no less than a light house for righteous life – so much rational, scientific approach & balanced pampering & hammering to place his disciples on the right track of dawah. He is with us through his peace based Islamic Ideology. A man of century par Excellence. A person personified. Ya Allah! please keep him near your Arsh, Ameen. May Allah grant his noble family all required Strength & Patience to bear this loss, Ameen! –Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus