AN INTERVIEW WITH MS KAUSER IZHAR

myself constantly and learn new things. I have a long way to go as I need to be consistent. What do you think is the legacy of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan? How can we strive to take it forward? Maulana’s legacy includes intellectual discovery of God, positive thinking, discovering the positive role of the Prophet Muhammad, proving the average person’s relevance to the task of calling people to God's mission, presenting the true Islam from its original sources in the modern idiom and showing its relevance to the present world, and establishing the fact that Islam is a religion of peace. Maulana discovered the new role of Muslims. We need to study his books and let’s not stop there. We must study the writings of the scholars of different faiths who are specialist in their area of social sciences and religion and then expand this work. There are huge challenges as the society is changing fast, we must be aware of the new challenges and able to learn new ideas to strengthen our activities of calling people to God. We need to learn to present Islam in modern times and address the minds of the seekers by our presentation and delivery of Quran and peace material by enrolling in technical, media/ communications. We should be able to present the peaceful message of Islam as explained through the CPS mission in such a way that addresses the recipient successfully. Also, just like Maulana trained us as dayee, and empowered us, we must also train others to become dayee. For this, we must be able to humble ourselves, and able to understand their difference of opinion and be able to adopt their views if they are better than us. o Peace is essential for a better way of living—peace of mind, peace in the family and peace in nature.