Author: Nazir Ahmad
Translator: Mohammed Zakir
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 246
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-81-250-2255-8
Description
A profound and poignant narrative, it takes us along to be a witness to the perpetual confrontation between individual conscience and religion with its metaphysical concepts against the backdrop of the changing realities of the mundane world.
In the charged atmosphere of the Mutiny (1857), an English Officer, Noble Sahib, and a Muslim gentleman, Ibn-ul-vaqt, are brought together under remarkable circumstances. Both of them are men of high principle and sharp intellect, on the common grounds of which they forge a lasting bond. Noble Sahib persuades Ibn-ul-Vaqt to remove the estrangement between the English and his community by adopting the English lifestyle and progressive way of life. The consequences that follow are not what they had envisioned.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 The Inaugural
2 Ibn-ul-Vaqt Meets Mr. Noble
3 Noble Sahib Goes to the English Camp
4 The Aftermath-Ibn-ul-Vaqt's Plight
5 Queen Victoria Assumes Reins- Ibn-ul-Vaqt Rewarded
6 At the Dining table
7 A Deputy Collector's Complaints
8 Noble Sahib Makes Ibn-ul-Vaqt a Reformer
9 Ibn-ul- Vaqt's Confers with Jan Nisar
10 Felicitations
11 Ibn-ul-Vaqt Speech
12 Ibn-ul-Vaqt Faces Opposition
13 English Lifestyle and Islam
14 Religion and Intellect
15 People's Displeasure
16 The Pinch
17 Noble Sahib's Departure
18 A Misunderstanding
19 The Discord
20 Ibn-ul-Vaqt's Financial Anxieties
21 Hujjat-ul-Islam
22 Hujjat-ul-Islam Arrives
23 On Religion
24 Hujja-ul- Islam Goes Back to the City
25 Hujjat-ul- Islam Explains
26 Reconciliation
27 On Religion
28 On Politics and Religion
Select Glossary