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Kaleemullah Khan is a bio-science post-graduate and a successful businessman. Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander met him at his home located near the Shalimar Garden, Srinagar, Kashmir. He is the founder of Adult Quranic Education Programme(AQEP) or the 18-81 Quranic Educational Programme. Here he speaks to Mushtaq about his mission.

As a student of Sri Pratap (S.P) College, I once encountered the Encyclopedia Britannica in the college library and went on to search for the word “Quran” under the letter “Q”. I was astonished by the remark from the authors about Quran that, “Quran is the most widely read book in history”. This led me to write a letter to the editors of this Encyclopedia, alleging this remark as half-truth and demanding that the correct remark should be like this: “Quran is the most widely read book in history, but simultaneously the least understood”. How to cure this ignorance? How to make people understand the message of Quran? These questions continued to baffle me. Then I decided to myself read, understand and then propagate the message of the Quran to others. Though it took me five years to complete my first reading of the Quran, but I had read the book cover to cover with understanding and initially started to convey its teachings to my friends Then in 1978, AQEP began to function formally. Only a minority among the 1.2 billion Muslims can understand the language of the Quran i.e Arabic, but for majority of Muslims Arabic is an alien language. So this programme is a ray of hope for such people. Talking in context of Kashmir where Islam spread through the teachings of Sufis, afterwards no movement was initiated to understand the teachings of the Quran.

These education progra-mmes are today conducted in three languages(Kashmiri,Urdu and English) Twenty five classes every week are co-ordinated by me in different Masjids of Srinagar and special classes for male and female physicians conducted separately. Another innovative programme for students is the “Class On Wheels”. The ‘Class On Wheels’ as its name depicts is a class which takes place in my spacious car with a bunch of students and I coach them in Quranic meanings while traveling as I drop them to school or to tutorial centres.

AQEP does not ask or accept donations from its participants. If anybody wishes to donate,copies of Quran will be great.AQEP every year also conducts Hajj Guidance Programme and I am the chief editor of the Urdu Monthly” Al-Hayat”.

(Kaleemullah Khan can be reached at aqep.lessons @gmail.com)

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Contact Mr. Muhammad Saeed Khan at editor@islamicvoice.com