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The culmination of his research was   new awareness of their social             As a special invitee to inter-religious   Some of national awards that he has
        his book, Al Islam, in which he       responsibilities and to promote           conferences, in India as well as      been honoured with are the Padam
        presented the interpretation of the   positive thinking and action.  The first   abroad, from 1967, he has been       Bhushan, the Rajiv Gandhi National
        Islamic Scriptures in the modern idiom   issues of the English and Hindi        addressing public and private         Sadbhavna Award, the National
        based on peace. He has since          versions of Al-Risala were launched in    gatherings in order to advocate a     Integration Award, the Communal
        authored over 200 books on prophetic   February 1984, and December 1990                                               Harmony Award, the Diwaliben
        wisdom and peaceful co-existence in a   respectively. The English version has   policy, which is based on peace and   Mohan Lal Mehta Award, the National
        multi-ethnic society giving the correct   continued to be published under the   harmony. He is actively involved in   Amity Award, the Dilli Gaurav Award,
        interpretation of the Islamic Scriptures   title of ‘The Spiritual Message’ and   serving the cause of peace and      the FIE Foundation Award, the Urdu
        such as ‘The Ideology of Peace’, The   now is being published as ‘The Spirit    solidarity through interfaith efforts   Academy Award, the Aruna Asaf Ali
        ‘True Jihad’ and ‘Islam and Peace’.   of Islam’.                                that aim to present to the world the   Sadbhavna Award and the National
        One of his recent books is ‘The       Over a period of time, he began to                                              Citizen’s Award presented by Mother
                                                                                        peaceful, tolerant spirit of Islam.
        Prophet of Peace: Teachings of The    write articles for various journals and                                         Teresa.
        Prophet Muhammad’. Published by       he has since become a regular             The Maulana, who is well traveled,    The book, The 500 Most influential
        Penguin, the book is a timely rebuttal   contributor to several national and    and the recipient of several national   Muslims of 2009 by Georgetown
        of jihadist mentality, offers a peaceful   international dailies and magazines.
                                                                                        and International awards, has made a   University, Washington DC has named
        solution to the terrorism menace by   Devoted to the development of a           very great contribution to world peace   him “Islam’s Spiritual Ambassador to
        giving the ideology of peace and is a   complete ideology of peace, he                                                the World.” His approach, the book
        guide for those who wish to           presents to the world the true face of    in his tireless campaign to avert the   points out, is “popular among Indians,
        understand Islam better.              Islam based, as it is, on peace,          danger of a nuclear conflict between   both Muslim and non-Muslim.”
        Realizing the need for the correct    tolerance and co-existence and helps      various countries. To this end he put
        translation and commentary of the     people understand their purpose in life   forward a proposal for a worldwide
        Quran and Hadith, Maulana translated   by explaining the creation plan of God   movement for nuclear disarmament at
                                              — the purpose of their life.
        the Quran in Urdu along with the                                                a peace forum held at Zug in
        commentary entitled Tazkirul Quran.   It is because of his advocacy of peace    Switzerland in 2002. On that
        Its English version ‘The Quran’ gives a   and his espousal of the cause of inter-  occasion, he was awarded the
        translation and interpretation of the   faith that he is respected by all       Demiurgus Peace International Award
        Quran in simple and contemporary      communities and in every circle of        by the Nuclear Disarmament Forum
        English.                              society.
                                                                                        AG. The award was given to
        To give full expression to these
                                                                                        acknowledge his outstanding
        positive ideas, he established the
                                                                                        achievements in strengthening peace
        Islamic Centre at New Delhi in 1970.
                                                                                        among nations and for his efforts to
        Subsequently, the organ of the Centre,
        ‘Al-Risala’, the monthly magazine  was                                          develop a complete ideology of peace
        launched in Urdu in 1976. This                                                  and present Islamic teachings that
        journal, consisting almost entirely of                                          addresses the modern mind. He has
        his own articles, quickly acquired a                                            also been awarded the title of
        wide circulation throughout the Urdu-                                           Ambassador of Peace by the
        speaking world, and has done much to
                                                                                        International Federation for World   Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, third from left,
        make people understand the peaceful                                                                                 planting an olive tree in Jerusalem during a
                                                  A new translation of The Quran        Peace, Korea.
        face of Islam, to awaken in Muslims a      by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan                                               peace conference of all religions in 1995.
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