FROM MAULANA’S DESK
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been the establishment of worldwide peace. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the Demiurgus Peace International Award and Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Peace award for promoting peace in Muslim societies. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognized as one of its most influential Muslims . His books have been translated into sixteen languages and are part of university curricula in six countries. He is the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality based in New Delhi.
GLOBAL LIBRARY
PEOPLE write biographies of famous people. But the fact is that every human being is a book. The human beings, taken together, constitute a global library. Every human life is a great book. Every human life is full of events. Every human being has experiences in his life that are not present in other human beings’ lives. It is as if everyone carries a whole library with them. Everyone has, within oneself, a complete library. Even if this library is mostly in unwritten form, it is still perfectly preserved in the records of the universe.
On Judgement Day, the written or unwritten books of every human being will be brought into the open. At that time, every human being will know what he has lost in life, and what he has gained, what opportunity he has availed of, and what opportunity he has missed out. This record of life of every human being will be presented to him as a living library. Whether he likes it or not, the record of his entire life will come before him. Man will be compelled to read the book he has written.
On Judgement Day, the written or unwritten books of every human being will be brought into the open. At that time, every human being will know what he has lost in life, and what he has gained.
This autobiography of man will be in his own comprehensible language. The most serious aspect of this situation would be that no human being would be in a position to rewrite the story of his life. No one will have the opportunity to write a second edition of their life story. Writing the first edition of one’s biography is in the hands of every human being, but preparing a revised edition of this story is beyond anyone’s ken. No one will be able to make the desired edition of their biography, which they can read, and give to others to read. This is the destiny of every human being. By all means, every person is going to face this destiny, whether they desire it or abhor it.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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(The Times of India)
1. The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2020, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan.
God increases
His guidance to
those who follow
guidance.
The Quran 19: 76