Page 9 - The Vision of Islam

Foreword for the English Edition

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I wrote the first foreword of my book in September 1975. According
to the circumstances of those times, I felt that with this book my
mission had come to an end. This thinking was reflected in my first
foreword. But subsequently there was a change of circumstances
and by special divine succour a full-fledged mission came to be
launched on the basis of the ideology I had presented in my book
Al-Islam.
Now when I am writing these lines in June 2013, by God’s
grace, this mission has become universal in its scope with the
establishment of Islamic Centre in 1976 and Centre for Peace and
Spirituality (CPS) in 2001. The literature of this mission has been
published on a large scale in different national and international
languages. This book, the English version of Al-Islam, is a part of
this mission.
This book offers an explanation of the teachings of Islam in a
contemporary style and aims at providing such an interpretation
of Islam as will address the modern mind. In 1975 there was just
this one book. But today, by God’s grace, a wide range of Islamic
literature, written in a contemporary style, has been prepared,
which is being disseminated in different languages.

New Delhi Wahiduddin Khan
June 15, 2013
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