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Al-Quran Mission
Urdu · 7 min read
Quran and Dawah Material Distribution
CPS International and Goodword Books have placed Order Free Quran forms on their websites, www.goodwordbooks.com and www.cpsglobal.org. They are sending Quran copies of the Quran translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan in English and dawah material in response to the daily requests coming from people from all over the world. Some of the prominent places are USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, Nigeria, Ghana, Australia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, UAE, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, Malta, Philippines, Poland, Russian, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India.
Dayees from all over the world are also spreading the translations of the Quran by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan in English and Hindi and dawah material during interactions or through emails either individually or in groups.
Some of the responses they have received are:
ک Thank you greatly for providing such an opportunity to get the Quran! I have been dreaming to have this book for so long, but it is almost unreal to find it in here. I will be impatiently waiting for the Quran! (Olesya Ponomaryova, Belarus)
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ک I would love to have a copy of Holy Quran in English so that i can understand the roots of Islam and its essence. I am Hindu by religion but i have equal respect for all religions and beliefs. Please send me a copy if available and if not, please send me the address of the bookseller, where the book is available. (Mohan Kumar Yadav, N. Delhi)
ک I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter No. CPS/238/10-1 dated 18th May 2010, along with the lovely edition of the Holy Quran, so beautifully translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Sahib. (Madan Mohan Mathur, New Delhi)
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ک I thank you for sending me the Holy Quran! Praise be to God. I am reading it daily. I would like to know Allah and know the true religion of Prophet Mohammed. (Musa Kioi from Nairobi, Kenya)
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ک I gratefully acknowledge the receipt of Quran translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. I am a great admirer of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and the great work that he and his organization “CPS International” has been doing to spread the message of Quran in the right perspective. It will be my proud privilege to give you my feed back after I have gone through this work of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. (Wg. Cdr. Ajai Bhalla (Retd.)
Quran Review in Speaking Tree Supplement of Times of India
The ‘Free Quran’ requests are continuing to flow in responses to the Speaking Tree Supplement of Time of India dated Sunday May 16th 2010 that carried a review of translation of Quran by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, in spite of so many weeks.
The review had stated that the translation is, “Simple and direct and reaches out to a large audience, Muslims as well as non Muslim”, and aptly entitled it, “Not Lost in Translation”. They had also referred to Maulana’s, statement, “The Maulana writes that the Quran is the word of God and it is the duty of believers to communicate the message of the Quran to all human beings so that they may the know reality of life.”
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Some of the recent comments from mainly non-Muslims are as follows:
ک Thank you for sending me Quran, which I never expected. I read the article in “Times of India” about the translation of Quran by Maulana Wahiduddin in a simple language. When I approached through internet, I learnt that it was not available. So, I am pleasantly surprised when I received it by courier service. How nice it would be if other organizations too distribute their sacred books in simple language freely to the interested. I am a cosmopolitan from Hindu back ground and I will definitely read and try to understand “Quran”. (V.B. Swamy, Bangalore)
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ک I love reading articles authored by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan on Muslin religion. They are secular and not orthodox type. I read a review by Sakina, “Not Lost in Translation” on his translation of the Quran in the Speaking Tree supplement of May 16, 2010. (Dr Krishan Kumar Agarwal, Vaishali, Ghaziabad)
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ک I like to study your whole literature. I hope your literature will help me to better understand the philosophy of Islam. Thank you for your honourable service. (Deepak Bisht, Ghaziabad)
ک This is in reference to information in TOI regarding the availability of free handy translation of Quran, my father wishes to go through the holy pages, if you can please forward the same free copy, he will be highly pleased. (Prarina)
ک Read the book review by Sakina Yousuf Khan in the Speaking Tree supplement with Times of India 16th May 2010. I will be grateful for a copy of the holy book. I am a secular person willing to imbibe all that is offered by any and all religions. (Anindya Chaudhury, Gurgaon)
ک It is nice that there is launch of English translation that we all are more comfortable in reading than Urdu. (Agrima Jindal, New Delhi)
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ک Respected Sir, In the Times of India, Speaking Tree, Book reviews, dated 16 May 2010, I read about the Quran review by Sakina Yusuf Shan. I request you to send me 100 copies of the Quran which will cost Rs. 2000 only. I want to donate it to an education trust. (Arun Venkatesh, Bangalore)
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ک The Society for Peace and Environmental Concerns, Jammu organized an inter-faith Conference on “Religion and Peace” on 6th 0f June 2010 at Jammu in the Seminar hall of Computer Science and I.T. Deptt. University of Jammu. The conference was chaired jointly by Prof. M.R. Puri, former Vice Chancellor University of Jammu as well as Prof. Varun Sahni, the present Vice- Chancellor, university of Jammu. In his address Prof. M.R. Puri, former Vice- Chancellor, university of Jammu made a startling revelation that “I have known it today only through this booklet that Assalam-O-Alaikum means peace be upon you and then he said that today I am concluding my speech with Assalam-O-Alaikum”. A booklet prepared specially for the occasion titled Islam and Peace was distributed among the participants which generated good response. The booklet was based on the Islamic ideology of peace given by Maulana Wahiddudin Khan in his book “Islam and Peace”. Dawah literature and Quran were exhibited during the conference and pocket size Quran translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan was distributed among the participants, free of cost. (Ahmad Shanas, President, SPEC)
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US Teleconference
To spread the Al-Quran Mission worldwide, Maulana Sahab has started addressing Dayees in the USA through teleconferencing that is being organized by Khwaja Kaleemuddin Sahab. On 6th June, 2010 the talk was on ‘How to do effective dawah work in Western society’. In his talk Maulana Sahab has said, ‘Muslims in the west are playing eastern games in western court’. By this he meant that the Muslims in the West are not trying to read the western mind and undertake dawah work, but are just acting on their eastern mindset. Due to this they have not realized that people in the West are dissatisfied spiritually, ‘They are looking for another version of Truth’. He advised Muslims in the West to utilize this opportunity and present Islam to them in the scientific idiom and they will surely welcome it.
As a result of this advice, Khwaja Kaleemuddin has written:
Following your advice on “How to do an effective Dawah work in Western Society” during our teleconference monthly meeting of CPS-USA, I decided to go to a Church to meet with the Pastor to have an exchange of Ideas. I called up one of my Christian friends who goes to a Greek Orthodox Church and told him that I would like to go to his Church with him today and meet with the Pastor at the end of the Church services. So I went to the Church along with him and met with the Pastor today and at the end of the services. At the end of our talk I presented him with “The Quran Translation” and “The Prophet of Peace”.
Amazingly, he was not only happy to receive these books; he even offered me two things. One, he asked me to bring more books to keep them in the Church library so that his members have an access to read those books and second, he would invite me to give a lecture on Islam to his Church audience in fall season.
Allahu Akbar, this experience of mine confirms what you said during your short talk yesterday that we must shed our hesitation and meet with the various “Intelligentsia” of the society. You are right that they are truly very receptive. In view of this experience, I urge all CPS members here in USA to experiment what I did today and continue doing for the rest of the life.