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Islam Rediscovered
"Islam Rediscovered: Discovering Islam from its Original Sources presents Islam as it is, drawing on its original sources rather than judging it by the later day interpretations and commentaries or the practices of present day Muslims in different parts of the world. A distinction is made between Islam as presented by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions (information about which is available to us in the Qur'an and the sunnah) and Islam as represented by later Muslim generations - both in theory and practice. This is what we call the scientific approach."
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Wahiduddin Khan
310 books383 followersMaulana Wahiduddin Khan is an Islamic spiritual scholar, who has adopted peace as the mission of his life. He was born in a family of landlords in 1925 at Badharia, a village near the town of Azamgarh, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (formerly known as the Eastern United Provinces).
After his father’s death in December 1929 he was brought up by his mother, and his uncle, Sufi Abdul Hamid Khan, arranged for his education. He comments that becoming an orphan very early in life taught him that, to succeed in life, you have to take such situations as challenges and not as problems. Being an advocate of result-oriented and positive action, he explains that treating such situations as problems can only be negative in result. All you can do in this state is either try to fight to remove them or lodge complaints or protests against them. On the other hand, if you take such situations as challenges, you can positively and constructively work to overcome them yourself, as and when suitable opportunities present themselves. His success in life is largely due to the implementation of this and other such principles, which he has derived from Islamic scriptures.
After his father’s death in December 1929 he was brought up by his mother, and his uncle, Sufi Abdul Hamid Khan, arranged for his education. He comments that becoming an orphan very early in life taught him that, to succeed in life, you have to take such situations as challenges and not as problems. Being an advocate of result-oriented and positive action, he explains that treating such situations as problems can only be negative in result. All you can do in this state is either try to fight to remove them or lodge complaints or protests against them. On the other hand, if you take such situations as challenges, you can positively and constructively work to overcome them yourself, as and when suitable opportunities present themselves. His success in life is largely due to the implementation of this and other such principles, which he has derived from Islamic scriptures.
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May 19, 2011
this extremely smart scholar put things in the proper perspective according to myself. its final proposal is to pursue re-reading of the Qur'an, in order to re-discover the message and then to discern it with the perspective of the current age. it presents fluid and crystal clear description (the text itself is beautiful) and most of all it shows the Islam that is not savage nor brutal as many news single-sidedly portrays now, not by being bias to its goodness only, but by rediscovering the core teaching of the prophet Muhammad and re-reading the Qur'anic ayahs to show its core message of peace.
June 24, 2015
Great job showing the true meaning of Islam.
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June 19, 2022
Maulana Wahiddudin Khan asks some very pertinent questions. A worthy read.
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