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In the book The Reality of Life, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that man is born with unlimited potential, yet in the present world he finds only a very limited use for it. According to his nature, man wants to live eternally, but very soon, without his leave, death arrives and puts an end to his life. He harbours an ocean of desires in his heart but these dreams are never realized. In this case, there is no difference between a poor man and a rich man. In this book the author explains why man and the present world are so mismatched.

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The Quran tells us that there is no compulsion in the matter of religion. (2:256) However this was not the order of the day when Islam came to the world in the 7th century AD. In The Revolutionary Role of Islam, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that Islam came to make this a reality. As such the expansion of the Islamic empire was not simply a political event. Its aim was to set in motion a revolutionary process in history that was initiated in Makkah, traveled first to Madinah, then to Damascus and Baghdad, from there to Spain and thereafter, it spread all over Europe and culminated in the 20th century worldwide. There were two basic aspects to this movement. One was the end of religious persecution (referred in the Quran as ‘fitna,’ 8:39) so that religious freedom became the order of the day, and the second was the universalization of intellectual and religious freedom for all, by the end of the 20th century. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand this issue comprehensively.

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In The Secret of a Successful Family Life Maulana Wahiduddin Khan gives principles to lead a successful family and social life. The first is the art of life management which means that man, on the one hand understands himself, (who he is, what his capabilities are, etc.) and, on the other hand, he becomes aware of the world around him. It is only then that he can plan his life in a realistic manner. He further explains that there are two ways to examine an action, either by an ideal standard or based on the result. Realism and wisdom lies in the latter. Explaining that the family is the unit of society, in the book, he elaborates how to form a positive relationship between a husband and a wife. As this relationship is not based on blood, the only way to make it successful is to use reason, rather than allow emotions to take precedence. This means that while a blood relationship establishes itself by the force of nature, a non-blood relationship is established through conscious effort and rational management.

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According to the Quran, there are two major parts of Islam—religion (din) and the law (Shariah). Din or al-din is basic and absolute, always remaining the same, without the slightest change. It is obligatory for all believers, whatever the circumstances, and entails belief in the One God, and the worship of Him alone. The Shariah, on the other hand, may differ, depending upon times and places. The task in reality is not synonymous with bringing about a change in the shariah but it is only a reapplication of the shariah in terms of altered circumstances. The task of effecting such reapplication, which was undertaken in the past, will, in like manner, continue to be carried out in the future. It is this process of continual adjustment which helps to keep Islam permanently updated. In the present book Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains how to apply the shariah of dawah in present times.

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The Vision of Islam 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. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan wrote the Urdu edition of this book, Al-Islam in September 1975. At that time he felt that with this book his mission had come to an end. 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 he had presented in his book Al-Islam. Today, in June 2013, by God’s grace, the English version of his book Al-Islam, entitled The Vision of Islam has been published. In 1975 there was just this one book. But today, by God’s grace, a universal mission has been established with more than 27 translations of the Quran and its commentary in the modern idiom, more than 200 books, and thousands of audio and video lectures. The mission has, further, been institutionalized with the establishment of Islamic Centre in 1976 and Centre for Peace and Spirituality (CPS International) in 2001 through the efforts of thousands of volunteers who are disseminating this literature globally. One who reads this book will obtain an insight into the ideology of the Islamic mission.

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Islam has become synonymous with global political jihad today and Islamic spirituality is often mistaken for orthodoxy. Then how do young Muslims hold on to their faith? How do they open the door for others to appreciate the true beauty of their religion? In his attempt to understand Islam in its true form, social activist and entrepreneur Raamish Siddiqui brings together the most thought-provoking works of eminent scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Through the Maulana’s writing, Raamish discovers that it was Prophet Muhammad who first lay the foundations of universal secular education, that Islam believes in gender equality and allegiance to the nation one is born in and that the Quran makes it obligatory for its adherents to not engage in violence except in self-defense. In a deeply introspective introduction, Raamish talks about his own dilemmas after 9/11 and how he transformed as a person when he learnt to differentiate between the true spirit of Islam and its misappropriation by those who have politicized it. Deeply insightful and in some ways, provocative, this is a vitally important guide to the most misunderstood religion of modern times.

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Through the book, The True Jihad, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan proves beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam and violence are contradictory to each other. Islam claims to be an eternal religion and violence as a principle is totally alien to the scheme of things in Islam. The truth of the matter is that all the teachings of Islam are based directly or indirectly on the principle of peace. The word ‘jihad’ has nowhere been used in the Quran to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean a peaceful, ideological ‘struggle’. The action most consistently called for in the Quran is the exercise of patience. No excuse, therefore, justifies the use of violence, in individual or national life. Islam teaches the maintenance of peace unilaterally. The book proves that the concept of Islamic violence is so obviously unfounded that prima facie it stands rejected.

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