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

He gave me a really good talk explaining things, in the end when I was leaving he said stay in touch. Stay in touch I had to be as, I soon came in touch with Naghma aapa, and she said we are forming a group and I must join it, which I did. Rest is a long story. The biggest ihsan Maulana did on me was asking, “have you read the full Quran?” And when I said not really, he replies “with what right you want to be a speaker on Islam?, go, first read the Quran” I got the point and worked on it. When I reported him with my quick progress, he charted out a syllabus for me: - read full Quran - then read the seerah - then read mishkat ul masabih After this inshallah you will reach a point of depth. (Of course I was getting a lot of personal attention from him as that time group was really small, hardly 6 people. I was often at his place after my college) This indeed was the biggest ihsan of my ustad on me which I can never repay. As I cried on Maulanas death, all these memories were revived. May Allah ever increase his Maqam near Him.