AN INTERVIEW

the tree. He said that Kaleem Saheb, you have opened an industry for the spread of the message of the Quran. You were called a special name by the postal department of your area. What was it? I would dispatch the translations of the Quran by post. I would visit the postal office again and again. They asked me what I was sending in so large a quantity. I told them I was dispatching copies of translations of the Quran. Then they started calling me Quran Man. My house is now officially called the Quran House. I pray that my house retains this status always and this work goes on always. I maintain that we are helped by the angels. So far, we have distributed 1.3 million copies of the Quran. We distribute it to other organizations and institutes. Maulana visited you many times in the USA. Please tell us some insightful events from his visits. There are many such events. In 1996, someone from Detroit contacted me. He said he had read The Vision of Islam and wished to read more of Maulana’s books. These books contained my phone number then. I told him the books are available and the author of the books would be here in a few days. He visited and stayed for two days with Maulana. He asked him if he did not wish to die for the sake of God, Maulana said, “Do you think I am alive?” On another trip in North Carolina, while driving, Maulana related how Al-Risala started. People told him that it would not be successful. They said, “Your articles are suggestive and not informative. People do not like suggestive magazines. People don’t want someone to tell them what to do.” Maulana replied that those were the days he was flooded with ideas of articles and books. He said, “If I start Al-Risala, the magazine will die of failure; and if I don’t start Al-Risala, I would die being burdened by the ideas.” God-realization is central to the message of Maulana. Please share some personal experiences of God-realization? In a recent article by Maulana, I read about a group of people who were waiting to see a President. The moment it was announced that the President is about to enter the hall, everyone became a picture of anticipation, respect and awe. He also wrote that if you are standing in front of a cave about which you have been informed that it is empty