Key to al-Baqarah: The Longest Surah of the Qur'an
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Khurram Murad
Khurram Murad (1932-1996) a greater scholar of our times occupies a place of distinction in the intellectual firmament of contemporary Islam. A thinker and a prolific writer, he has been one of the architects of current Islamic resurgence. While his da'wah activities began in Pakistan, he has been involved in the promotion of the Islamic movement in Asia, Europe and Africa. As a teacher and a da'iyah his speeches and thoughtful orations have inspired thousands of young men and women all over the world. As chief of the training departments of the Jamiat, the Jamaat and as an active resource-person in training programmes in the UK, he played a key role in the character-building of the youth in the Islamic Movement. Khurram Murad served as Naib Amir (Vice-President) Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, a Trustee and a former Director General of the Islamic Foundation in Leicester, UK, and editor of Tarjumanal Qur'an, Lahore, Pakistan (an epoch making journal founded by the renowned Islamic scholar, Abul Ala Maududi in 1932), and the quarterly Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK. He was born in Bhopal India, and after graduating cum laude, he took his Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. From 1975-1976, he was involved in the extension project of Masjid al Haram in Makkah. An author of over thirty-five works in Urdu and English, his thoughts have influenced two generations of Muslims all the world over.
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Key to al-Baqarah - Khurram Murad
Preface
There is no book like the Qur’an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It is the final answer to man’s eternal, existential quest. For Muslims, it is the ultimate arbiter of their destiny: be it their rise to the heights of glory and civilization or their fall into the bottomless pits of decay and ignominy, it all happens because of how they live with respect to the Qur’an.
The Qur’an has untold, priceless treasures to offer: the endless joys of blissful conversations with our Creator; the immense riches of knowledge and wisdom that guide on the path of our Lord; the radiant light that illuminates the deepest reaches of souls as well as the most public domains of lives; the healing that cures all our sicknesses, inner or social; the mercy and forgiveness that support, succour and comfort so that we carry the burdens of life joyfully and reach salvation and success both here and in the Hereafter.
These treasures are there for all the wayfarers and seekers. They are available to them today, I have no doubt, just as they were available to its hearers yesterday, fourteen centuries ago. But the Qur’an has the same claim upon its followers now as it had then: to hear it and make it heard, to understand it and make it understood, to live by it and invite all others to live by it, to strive to bring human life under the Qur’an. Only then will the Qur’an open its gates for us, only then will it become our destiny.
It is the infinite mercy of Allah upon me, for which I can never be thankful enough to Him, that I have always been granted some share of these treasures – enormous compared to the little I did to deserve them, but very little compared to the vast oceans that the Qur’an has to offer. Out of an urgent sense of duty as laid down upon every Muslim by Allah and His Prophet (bpuh), I have always tried to share with others whatever Qur’an I knew, even if it be one verse. But knowing full well the gross inadequacies of my knowledge and Taqwa, and having no pretensions to being a learned scholar or mufassir of the Qur’an, I have always been very reluctant to publish what I have been speaking of. But many friends who heard me have always urged me to make it reach the larger reading public. Hence, this first small booklet, Key to al-Baqarah, which, I hope Insha Allah, will not be the last in a larger intended Treasures of the Qur’an Series.
My aim, as I also said in my preface to the Way to the Qur’ān, in writing this booklet is very modest. This is not a work of erudite scholarship. I am writing for the ordinary, unlearned seekers after the Qur’an, especially the young men and women, who ardently desire to live by it. I am writing about things which I am learning myself, as one wayfarer to another. Hence the reader will not find here fine points of grammar, lexicon or philosophy, nor rational and philosophical discourses, nor details of Fiqh. My sole aim is to make the message of the Qur’an, and its summons to live by it, reach the hearts and minds of readers. Despite my shortcomings, I have every hope that this will rejuvenate them, because I trust the Qur’anic promise: ‘We have made the Qur’an easy for reminder.’
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