1. Wahiduddin Khan, known with the honorific "Maulana", was an Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist and author known for having written a commentary on the Quran and having translated it into contemporary English.
42 Facts About Wahiduddin Khan
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Wahiduddin Khan was listed in "the 500 Most Influential Muslims" of the world.
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Wahiduddin Khan was the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality.
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Wahiduddin Khan wrote over 200 books on several aspects of Islam and established the Centre for Peace and Spirituality to promote interfaith dialogue.
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Wahiduddin Khan received the Demiurgus Peace International Award, and India's third-highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in January 2000; the National Citizens' Award, presented by Mother Teresa and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.
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Wahiduddin Khan was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour, in January 2021.
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Wahiduddin Khan died in Delhi from COVID-19 complications in April 2021 at the age of 96.
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Wahiduddin Khan was born a family of Pathan landlords in Village Badharia, in district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1925.
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Wahiduddin Khan lost his father at the age of four and was raised by his mother Zaibunnisa and his uncle, Sufi Abdul Hamid Wahiduddin Khan.
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Wahiduddin Khan received his education at a traditional seminary, Madrastaul Islahi, in Sarai Mir in 1938.
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Wahiduddin Khan spent six years completing his alim course and graduated in 1944.
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Wahiduddin Khan was a member of the central Majlis-e-Shura of Jamaat-e-Islami, but due to ideological differences, he withdrew from the party in 1963 and published his critique under the name of Tabir Ki Ghalti.
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Wahiduddin Khan was appointed, in a few years after, as a member of its Central Committee.
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Wahiduddin Khan did not remain for long with the Jama'at, as he thought that the Jama'at's agenda was not only impractical but not in keeping with what Islam expected of the Muslims of India.
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Wahiduddin Khan came to the conclusion that the Jama'at-e Islami's political approach was ill-suited to the needs and conditions of the Muslim minority in India.
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Wahiduddin Khan began airing his differences with the Jama'at's ideology and policies even while still a senior leader of the Jama'at, but as these differences began to grow, he decided to quit the organization in 1962 after serving it for ten years.
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Wahiduddin Khan founded the Quran Foundation on April 2,2015.
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Wahiduddin Khan established the Islamic Centre in New Delhi in 1970.
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In 2001, Wahiduddin Khan established the 'Centre for Peace and Spirituality'.
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Wahiduddin Khan says that in centuries no revolution in the true sense of the word has been brought about based on peace.
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Wahiduddin Khan writes that for peace, the human need is not enough to make him exercise restraint and remain peaceable.
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Wahiduddin Khan argues that the Hudaybiya treaty was a biased and unjust peace treaty based on it is's terms.
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Wahiduddin Khan writes that justice can only be within discussion after peace is exercised.
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Wahiduddin Khan argues that al-Afghani made the notion of a political revolution into a religious duty, a binding obligation, like prayers and fasting.
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In time Wahiduddin Khan emerged as a critic of Maududi's Islamist ideas, which he saw as reactionary rather than authentically Islamic.
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Wahiduddin Khan's concern has been to demolish the political interpretation of Islam.
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Wahiduddin Khan denounced martyrdom operations as, according to Islam, people can become martyrs, but they cannot court a martyr's death deliberately.
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Wahiduddin Khan believed that there is certainly a scientific basis for belief in the existence of God.
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Wahiduddin Khan argues in his book God Arises that if one applies the right criterion, they will find that God is a proven fact.
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Wahiduddin Khan says that people are born spiritual but the multiple influences from society condition a man's personality or nurture one based on negative feelings.
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Wahiduddin Khan says, we, therefore, have to consciously activate our mind and de-condition or purify it so as to develop our personality on positive lines as only a positive personality will find entry into paradise.
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Wahiduddin Khan argues that innumerable verses from the Quran and many sayings of Muhammad can be quoted which explicitly urge their readers to delve deeper into the mysteries of the earth and the heavens.
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For Wahiduddin Khan "making a study of nature is to discover the Creator in His creation".
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Wahiduddin Khan quotes Muslim history to contradict the supposition that Islam is an obstacle to scientific investigation.
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Wahiduddin Khan "has authored over 200 books on Islam, inter-faith dialogue, social harmony, freedom of speech, prophetic wisdom, spirituality and coexistence in a multi-ethnic society" as well on Islam's relations with modernity and secularism.
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Wahiduddin Khan translated the Quran in Urdu along with the commentary entitled Tazkirul Quran.
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Wahiduddin Khan explains the depths of God realization in his book, Kitab-e-Marefat.
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Wahiduddin Khan is the co-founder of Goodword books, a popular publisher of books on Islam.
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Wahiduddin Khan, died on 21 April 2021, ten days after he was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Delhi after he tested positive for coronavirus infection at the age of 96.
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Wahiduddin Khan was buried at Panjpeeran Qabristan near Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi.
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Wahiduddin Khan is survived by two sons and two daughters.
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Wahiduddin Khan's other son, Saniyasnain Khan is a children's book author.