Top Indian scholar launches books in English, Hindi and Urdu

RIYADH: Thirty-eight books of a top Indian scholar, Mohammed Najeeb Qasmi, were launched in English, Hindi and Urdu at a ceremony here recently.
Qasmi told the audience, which included several fellow Muslim scholars and intellectuals, that the books are available in the form of two apps, Deen-e-Islam and Haj-e-Mabroor, at the PlayStore and AppStore.
He said they can be downloaded within two minutes. The Haj app would allow pilgrims to reduce the number of books they need to carry for their rituals. He said several Indian and Pakistani scholars had reviewed the contents.
In a speech at the event, Mohammed Mustafa Azmi, well-known Islamic scholar and winner of the King Faisal Prize, praised Qasmi for making the books available to a wide audience, saying it would help counter those trying to discredit Islam.
“There are even some governments spending lavishly on organizations working to criticize the Qur’an and Hadith and create doubt among the followers of Islam. Muslims need to put aside their ideological differences and stand together in the face of these challenges,” said Azmi.
He said the curriculum of Muslim schools require “immense changes so that the products of these seminaries are made aware of the conspiracies hatched by the Western Orientalists against Islam.”
Azmi is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. He obtained a master’s degree from Al-Azhar University in 1955 and a doctorate at Cambridge University in 1966. He is the first to computerize Hadith and has many books to his credit, which are taught as part of the curriculum at several universities.
Addressing the gathering, Nadeem Tarin, an educationist from India, praised Qasmi for his efforts, which he said was serving the cause of Islam.
Tarin urged those gathered to support the author’s work.
Adnan Mahmoud Usmani, a researcher at King Saud University’s medical college, who edited all of Qasmi’s English books, said various languages have over the years been used to propagate the message of Islam, but the need for works in English “has grown more than ever.”