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لیے خوب دعائیں کرتا ہوں۔ اللہ پاک آپ کا سایہ اس امت پر قائم رکھے۔ آپ کے اصلاحی کاموں کا دائرہ بے حد وسیع ہے۔ اللہ پاک آپ کو ہر طرح کی رحمتوں سے نوازے۔ دعاؤں میں یاد رکھیں۔ (محمد نثار اختر انصاری، ناگپور) 6- صدر اسلامی مرکز کے منتخب اردو مضامین کو ڈاکٹر یوگندر سکند (بنگلور) نے انگریزی میں Jihad, Peace and Inter-Community Relations in Islam کے نام سے ترجمہ و ترتیب دیا ہے۔ تقریباً 140 صفحات پر مشتمل اس کتاب کو پاپائینڈ کمپنی نے شائع کیا ہے۔ اس کتاب کو پبلشر کے علاوہ گڈ ورڈ بکس سے بھی حاصل کیا جاسکتا ہے۔ حال ہی میں اس کتاب پر یونیورسٹی آف کیلی فورنیا کے پروفیسر فائر اسٹون (Reuven Firestone) نے تبصرہ لکھا ہے۔ ذیل میں ان کا تبصرہ نقل کیا جاتا ہے: Yoginder Sikand writes in his preface, “New Delhi-based Maulana Wahiddudin Khan is one of the few ulama or traditionally-trained Islamic scholars throughout the world to have made a deep and incisive study of the politics and ideology of extreme self-styled ‘Islamic’ groups and to have critiqued them from within an Islamic framework”. Khan is indeed a remarkable thinker and this is a remarkable book for its frank, self-critical approach. The Maulana (an honorific meaning, literally, “our master”) had a thoroughly traditional pious village upbringing and then formal religious training in what is today the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. When he returned to his village after his studies he experienced a personal crisis in the tension between tradition and modernity, a tension which he eventually resolved through a journey in which he engaged independently and directly with the Qur’an and Tradition. In the process he taught himself English, through which he encountered Western writers and philosophers. By engaging in both traditional and modern discourses he was able to resolve many of the conflicts that plagued him, resulting in an authentic vision of Islam that is also consonant with the moral-ethical language and concerns of a universal perspective. Four interrelated themes pervade the volume: 1) a critique of the politics and ideology of radical, self-styled Islamists who claim to be engaged in Islamic jihad, 2) discussions about how jihad is conceived in the Qur’an and the Hadith (traditions attributed to Muhammad that treat his words and deeds) and how many modern jihadists have deviated from them, 3) authentic Islamic teachings supporting inter-religious and