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10th Sep 2019

Garden of Spirituality by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Nature is not simply a wonderful world. It is rather an amazing garden of spirituality.

Just visit a place of natural beauty, a place where there are mountains, flowing rivers, tall, lush green trees, birds on the wing, small white clouds floating in the sky, the sun shining, and so on. In such a spot, you will feel like exclaiming: “How wonderful nature is!” But nature is not simply a wonderful world. It is rather an amazing garden of spirituality. Indeed, everything in nature gives you a taste of spirituality. For example, when you see a honeybee hovering over a flower, you suddenly realize that it has a...

20th Jan 2016

“You are doing what I always wanted to do.” Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

By Saniyasnain Khan
 
  
 
In the late eighties when I first visited London, I tried to meet Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens). I contacted his secretary to get an appointment. She said I could meet Mr. Yusuf at Regent’s Park Mosque on Sundays after the Asr prayer. So I visited the Regent’s Park Mosque and found Yusuf Islam surrounded by a group of people. After waiting for some time I managed to meet him and gave him a copy of my father’s book, Muhammad: The Prophet of Revolution. He glanced at it and said he will read it. That was a short meeting....
19th Jan 2016

“I read your books to my children.” – Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

By Saniyasnain Khan
 
In March 2015, I visited Abu Dhabi along with my father Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and other members of CPS International to attend a peace conference organized by the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies.
 
Here for the first time I met Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. When I introduced myself to him and presented him a copy of one of my books, Goodnight Stories from the Quran, he smilingly said, “I read your books to my children!”
 
Sheikh Hamza has great fondness for India and deep respect for great Indian scholars of the past. He fondly...
26th Nov 2015

The Essence of the Quran

SURAH AL-FATIHA (THE OPENING)
 
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
All praise is due to God, the Lord of the Universe; the Beneficent, the Merciful;
Lord of the Day of Judgement.
You alone we worship, and to You alone we turn for help.
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24th Nov 2015

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan visits the US

By Maria Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and members of Centre for Peace and Spirituality (CPS) were on a two-week visit to the United States from August 26 to September 8, 2015. The Maulana had been invited by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) for felicitation for his work on Islam. CPS participated in a number of programs in Washington D.C. and Wallingford, Pennsylvania before attending the ISNA convention. 
 
On August 27 the Maulana and CPS members went to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington D.C. The USIP is an institution established by Congress to increase the nation’s capacity to manage conflicts without violence and...

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