A SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S DESK Prof Farida Khanam is an author, editor, translator, public speaker and former professor of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Among her books are ‘A Simple Guide to Sufism’ and ‘A Study of World’s Major Religions’. She has translated into English many books authored by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Currently the chairperson of CPS International, she is a regular contributor of articles to various publications. Prof Khanam has edited Maulana’s English translation of the Quran and has also translated his Urdu commentary on the Quran into English. She can be reached at spiritofislamperiodical@gmail.com SPIRIT OF ISLAM Your Spiritual Companion T HIS January 2022 is the beginning of the 10th year of our magazine. Its wide readership is a special blessing of God. We have been receiving good news all along that it’s reach has increased manifold all over the world. We are grateful to the readers who have continued to benefit from this magazine. So much has changed since the start of 2020. The pandemic, the lockdown, quarantine, social distancing, Oxygen supply and the race to produce vaccine in order to see the world get going again: How tumultuous, nerve-racking and testing these times have been! We had to make radical adjustments to our mode of living. Although the threat is far from over, we do find ourselves in a better position now to deal with Covid-19, thanks be to God for the human intelligence to find solutions to the problems. This was also the occasion when the existential questions started to trouble the human mind. A perusal of the newspapers, magazines and audio-visual broadcasts during the last one year makes it quite clear how interested we were in finding answers to age-old questions like: Where do we come from? Where are we destined to go after death? What is the purpose of life? Why is there so much suffering in the world?