Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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In Conversation with Mohammad Asad Pervez March 27, 2022

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1 min 6 sec
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Realizing the Quran isn't actually a long book
“The Quran isn't actually a very big book”
4 min 8 sec
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How a young engineer discovered an accessible Quran translation
“The Quran isn't actually a very big book”
37 sec
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Quran word count same as Harry Potter book
“I was a big fan of the Harry Potter series”
1 min 58 sec
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Muslim households never read translations, and why that fails
“There's no concept of reading the Quran's translation”
34 sec
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Finished half the Quran translation overnight
“The first day, I finished almost half of it”
52 sec
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Yaqub's verse on complaining only to God
“I remember this verse in Surat Al Yusuf”
1 min 52 sec
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Yusuf story verse that hit him personally about his mother
“I remember this verse in Surat Al Yusuf”
40 sec
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Hadith on who is worth keeping company with
“Whoever met Maulana had a lifelong experience”
4 min 47 sec
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First meeting Maulana: simplicity, depth, and his teaching method
“Maulana's reputation precedes him”
1 min 35 sec
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Maulana's simplicity and surprising depth of scientific knowledge
“His level of simplicity showed how approachable he was”
4 min 4 sec
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Losing Urdu, gaining reason: rethinking what an ideal Muslim is
“Parents always fear losing their culture in the next generation”
53 sec
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Newton, Einstein, and not fearing new knowledge
“Newtonian physics got us to the moon in '69”
28 sec
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God gave everyone different abilities
“God has given different people different abilities”
2 min 8 sec
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Why science and religion seem to conflict, and the fix
“Why do people find conflict between religion and science?”
50 sec
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Blame yourself first, quoting George Bernard Shaw
“Maulana's attitude was always: blame thyself”
2 min 14 sec
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Blame yourself, then decondition your inherited biases
“Maulana's attitude was always: blame thyself”
2 min 3 sec
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Book 'God Arises' predicted a famous atheist's conversion arguments
“One book that blew me away was 'God Arises'”
41 sec
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Famous atheist's book mirrored Maulana decades later
“How the world's most notorious atheist became a believer”
3 min 52 sec
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Traveling the world and finding Maulana's Quran everywhere
“In 2016 I had the opportunity to travel a lot”
4 min 1 sec
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Stories of handing the Quran to guarded public figures
“Every single incident is unique, but something is common”
1 min 53 sec
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Security guards stepping aside to let the Quran through
“Security guards always move aside, People too”
4 min 44 sec
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From giving khutbahs to defining his life's mission after Maulana
“When Maulana passed away, I felt I'd taken it for granted”
1 min 46 sec
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The one biggest responsibility of Muslims, per Maulana
“Do you know the biggest responsibility of Muslims?”
48 sec
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Realizing the real duty is simply spreading the Quran
“It never occurred to me the responsibility is so simple”
39 sec
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Maulana's dua for a small family, answered bigger
“Maulana once made a dua: give me a small family”