Unlocking Islamic Wisdom: Recent Episodes
Tarik Sumithran
Discover the treasure of Islamic wisdom from the scholars who are lost to history. These podcasts will address some of the questions relating to Islam that arise in the modern mind. The audio should be of interest to all listeners irrespective of their religious background.
"Probably no man living has done longer or more valuable service for the cause of Islamic revival than Maulana Muhammad Ali of Lahore. His literary works, with those of the late Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, have given fame and distinction to the Ahmadiyya Movement. In our opinion the present volume is his finest work. … It is a description of Al-Islam by one well-versed in the Sunna who has on his mind the shame of the Muslim decadence of the past five centuries and in his heart the hope of the revival, of which signs can now be seen on every side." - Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, regarding the book (The Religion of Islam) from which this episode has been excerpted. - (Wikipedia).
Maulana Sadr-ud-Din (Urdu: مولانا صدر الدین; died 14–15 November 1981) became the first missionary of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore in the Wilmersdorfer Moschee (Berlin Mosque) in 1922. (Wikipedia)
"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)
"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)
Mr. William Bashyr Pickard is of British and French descent, born in London on July 31, 1889. He took an Honours degree in classics; entered the Colonial Civil Service under the Uganda Protectorate Administration in 1912, but resigned later on, and enlisted in Middlesex Yeomanry on the outbreak of the First Great War. He saw active service in France with the Middlesex Regiment and the 53rd French Mortar Battery. On the conclusion of peace he was repatriated and entered the Government service, obtaining an appointment as Assistant Administrative Officer in the Profiteering Act Department under the Board of Trade, which he resigned later and resumed his studies at the University College, London.
Mr. Bashyr Pickard declared his faith in Islam in January 1922. Since then he has been in close touch with the Mosque, Woking. (AAIIL)
Basharat Ahmad, a member of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, was the author of numerous publications about Islam and the Ahmadiyya movement. He was the father of Naseer Ahmad Faruqui and the father in law of Maulana Muhammad Ali.
Basharat Ahmad was born in Dharamsala, India, where he received his early education. He then studied at the King Edward Medical College, Lahore. He served as a doctor in East Africa as well as various cities of the Punjab.
On retirement he settled down in Lahore on the advice of Maulana Mohammad Ali and devoted himself to the cause of Islam. (Wikipedia)
Ayesha Morrison published a number of articles during the 1930s in The Light, an English language magazine published by the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat i Islam from Lahore. This article was published on March 1, 1935.
"Probably no man living has done longer or more valuable service for the cause of Islamic revival than Maulana Muhammad Ali of Lahore. His literary works, with those of the late Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, have given fame and distinction to the Ahmadiyya Movement. In our opinion the present volume is his finest work. … It is a description of Al-Islam by one well-versed in the Sunna who has on his mind the shame of the Muslim decadence of the past five centuries and in his heart the hope of the revival, of which signs can now be seen on every side." - Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, regarding the book (The Religion of Islam) from which this episode has been excerpted. - (Wikipedia).
Naseer Ahmad Faruqui OBE, SPk, HQA (15 December 1906 – 5 December 1991) was a prominent civil servant of Pakistan and prior to that in British India (Wikipedia).
"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)
The Maulavi Aftab-ud-Din Ahmad was closely associated with the work and progress of the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust, Woking, England, from 1931 till he breathed his last.
Born in January 1901 in the village of Tola, Burdwan, India, he received his early education in the home town of Burdwan. After getting his Bachelor of Arts with distinction in 1923 from the Presidency College, Calcutta, he grew more and more conscious of the fallen condition of the Muslims of India with whose political life he had come into contact as a result of his working voluntarily for the Khilafat Movement for about four years. This awakened in him the desire to have a first-hand knowledge of Islam. He joined the famous religious seminary of Deoband, near Delhi, where he studied under such renowned scholars as the late Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani for one-and-a-half years. In his search for a more up-to-date interpretation of Islam he now turned himself to the late [Maulana] Muhammad Ali, the first Indian Muslim translator of the Holy Quran into English. He soon made up his mind to go to Lahore for a study of comparative religion under the guidance of eminent scholars like the late Muhammad Ali and others who had joined the band of the workers of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at-i-Islam, Lahore, now in Pakistan.
Muhammad Abdullah, a South Asian Lahori-Sunni missionary, was an acquaintance of Elijah Muhammad. Abdullah had apparently learned of Muhammad during a seventeen-month stay in the US in the mid-1950s, and the two soon began exchanging letters. At the end of the decade, Abdullah moved permanently to the US, living part time in California, where he headed the MBUSA’s missionary efforts as well as a number of mosques, and part time in Philadelphia, where, besides working with the local MBUSA and IMB he gave Urdu and Qur’an lessons to Wallace, who was the city’s NOI minister at the time. (Patrick D. Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States Volume 2, Brill, 2017)
"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. 1932) was a pioneer Muslim missionary to the West who established the famous Woking Muslim Mission in 1913 at the Woking Mosque in England, which operated for over fifty years. In the same year, he also started the renowned journal The Islamic Review from England. This Mission achieved tremendous success in correcting the false picture of Islam prevailing in Western countries, and gained a large number of British and other converts to Islam, the most famous convert being Lord Headley (d. 1935)