As salaamu alai kumm wa rahmatullahi wa barakath,
One of life’s little pleasures is reading a good old book or better still a hardcover on a rainy wintry evening…the smell of its ink is a big part of that experience, which is why I feel eBooks will never be able to match that feel, let alone replacing the actual book.eBook’s, my dear readers, are but a compromise.
And if the book happens to be on one of the greatest Islamic personalities of the last century, the joy only multiplies. This morning I experienced the above when by the grace of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, I finally laid my hands on a biographical on Hazrath Shaikh Maulana Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (may Allah have mercy on him) – by far one of the greatest scholars of the Muslim ummah of the past century from India.
The book is titled ‘Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi: Life and Works’ by Abdul Kadar Choughley, all this while I thought the only biography on the great Shaikh was written by Shaikh Akram Nadwi (damath baraka tuhum) but I was wrong. This book precedes the one written by Shaikh Akram Nadwi.
UPDATE: This book was published in December 2011 while Shaikh Akram Nadwi’s book was released in March 2013. Title: Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi: Life and WorksAuthor: Abdul Kadar ChoughleyPublisher: D. K. Printworld
(Index of the contents of the book has been provided after the photos)
Imam ash-Shafi`i said:
"Whoever takes knowledge from books loses the regulations."
(man akhadha al-`ilma min al-kutubi Dayya`a al-aHkaama). [Reported by Nawawi in the introduction to "al-Majmu"]
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