লেখকঃ Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri

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Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri

Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri was born in 1914 in India and graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Arabic from the Government College, Lahore, of the University of the Punjab. He also attended the Faculty of Arabic at al-Azhar University, Cairo. He is fluent in many languages, including English, classical Arabic, Urdu, Hindustani, Punjabi, Kiwahili . . . (For our non-Muslim readers we should explain that Al-Hafiz denotes one who has memorised the whole of the Holy Qur'an). During the 20 years he spent in East Africa (1941-61), he was Headmaster of the then largest Secondary school and also held secretarial and presidential posts on religious, social and educational organisations among the African, Asian and European communities - including animal welfare. In 1961 he settled in England and studied Journalism and for six years was the Joint-Editor of the well known Islamic monthly Magazine - The Islamic Review. In 1964 he was the first Sunni Muslim to be appointed as the Imam of the Shah Jehan Mosque, Woking, U.K., which at that time was the European centre for Islam. Following his retirement in 1968, in order to gain a deeper first-hand knowledge of Islamic culture, he spent three years touring more than forty, mainly Muslim, countries by car. He is well known in the U.K. for his lectures, radio and television broadcasts and published articles as an authority on the wider aspects of Islan. Al-Hafiz Masri's dedicated and far-ranging study of the current practical problems of the Muslim world for nearly three-quarters of a century must make him one of the very few authorities to undertake successfully the writing of a comprehensive book of which this booklet forms the first chapter.

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Born: 1914, Qadian, India