FROM MAULANA'S DESK

FROM MAULANA’S DESK 1. The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2012, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been the establishment of worldwide peace. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India, and the Demiurgus Peace International Award. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognised as one of its most influential Muslims1. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and are part of university curricula in six countries. He is the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality based in New Delhi. A CCORDING to media reports of April 11, 2015, an Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and thirteen others for planning attacks against the state. Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death following the removal of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Dispute between the Muslim Brotherhood and the political authorities of Egypt has been going on for almost half a century now. The political leaders of Egypt have been dealing sternly with the Muslim Brotherhood, but have failed to undermine the influence of the Brotherhood in the region. This dispute between the two began soon after Egypt’s King Farouk was deposed in 1952. Hassan al-Banna (1906-1949), the founder of Muslim Brotherhood was shot dead on a street in Cairo on February 12, 1949. Sayyid Qutb, another leader of Muslim Brotherhood was executed on August 29, 1966. Despite this stern action by Egypt’s political rulers, the Muslim Brotherhood has survived. In fact, during the general elections in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood leader, Dr. Mohamed Morsi, received YOU CANNOT HANG AN IDEOLOGY