SPIRIT OF ISLAM MARCH 2O18

3 Spirit of Islam Issue 63 March 2018 FROM MAULANA’S DESK 1. The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2018, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan , born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been the establishment of worldwide peace. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the Demiurgus Peace International Award and Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Peace award for promoting peace in Muslim societies. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognized as one of its most influential Muslims 1 . His books have been translated into sixteen languages and are part of university curricula in six countries. He is the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality based in New Delhi. GOOD NEWS FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR H ERE we reproduce a news report which has been published in various newspapers. The text presented below has been published in The Times of India , dated February 17, 2018: Muzaffarnagar: Muslims agree to remove mosque for bridge construction The long-pending construction work of an overbridge in Muzaffarnagar city could now see the light of the day after members from the Muslim community gave their consent to remove a roadside mosque affecting the project. The project had remained stalled for the past 10 years with the religious structure playing as a major hindrance. However, the locals held a meeting and decided to remove the mosque for the betterment of the area and smooth flow of traffic. The district administration had made adequate security arrangements to deal with any eventualities considering the sensitivity of the