Zafarul Islam Khan, author, commentator, and former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission has come up with the English translation of the Islamic religious book, Quran. The book named ‘The Glorious Quran’ seeks to present the Quran as it was interpreted by Islam’s ancestors and forefathers.
As per the report by Siasat Daily, the book is the first contribution toward the translation of the Quran into English which is after a book by Abdullah Yusuf Ali who came out with a similar publication in the year 1930. The book is believed to be the new complete guide to Islam.
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan began the work as a modification of Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s translation, which he claims has many discrepancies and errors, as well as using outdated vocabulary.
The book also contains two thousand new annotations and several attachments on the introduction to the Quran, a biography of Prophet Muhammad, the Names of Allah, a dictionary of Islamic terms, and a subject index of the Quran.
Zafarul-Islam Khan threatened Hindus in 2020
Notably, Zafarul Islam Khan, the author of the new translation is the same person who has threatened Hindus. In the year 2020, Khan had written a Facebook post in which he had called Hindus bigots and had praised Islamist hate preacher Zakir Naik. He claimed that people like Naik are respectful household names in the Arab region and Muslim world.
The incident had taken place when Kuwait had taken the note of “persecution of Muslims in India”. Khan then extended gratitude to Kuwait for “standing with the Indian Muslims” and attacked Hindus by referring to them as “Hindutva bigots”.
“Mind you, bigots, Indian Muslims have opted until now not to complain to the Arab and Muslim world about your hate campaigns and lynchings and riots. The day they are pushed to do that, bigots will face avalanche,” he had said.
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police reportedly had booked Zafarul Islam, the then Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission, for sedition (IPC Section 124A) and promoting religious animosity (IPC Section 153A).
Later, he tendered an apology saying that his statement was a little ‘out of proportion’ and that he would continue to defend India on crucial issues as doing otherwise would be against the Constitution and his religious beliefs.
Statement by Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan (1 May 2020) pic.twitter.com/9d5609e8rS
— Zafarul-Islam Khan (@khan_zafarul) May 1, 2020
The translator is believed to be a well-known Islamic scholar who obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies from Manchester University after studying at Al-Azhar and Cairo universities. Along with Arabic, he also happens to be fluent in English and Urdu, and has published a number of writings in all three languages. For around 14 years, he was a senior research fellow at The Muslim Institute in London.
