Shabbir Ahmed (writer)
| Dr. Shabbir Ahmed | |
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| Born | August 14, 1947 Pakistan |
| Occupation | Medical Doctor |
| Language | Urdu, English |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | LMC, Jamshoro |
| Genre | History, Islam |
| Subject | Qur'an, Comparative Religion, Hadith, History, IndoPak Subcontinent, Philosophy, Psychology, Iqbaliat, Medicine (Qur'anic) |
| Literary movement | non-sectarian Islam |
| Notable awards | Scholar of the New Millennium, "Media International", Canada. Columnist of the columnists, "Khabrain" Pakistan, "Urdu Times", New York. |
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Shabbir Ahmed is a writer of books in both Urdu and English on history and Islam. He was born in Pakistan in 1947 and currently resides in Florida, United States. A medical doctor by profession, he started his military career in the Pakistan Army under Emergency Commission as a young Captain in 1971. Then he served in Royal Saudi Army (Medical Corps) and became a Brigadier General at an age of just 31. He has since made a new career as a self-proclaimed Islamic scholar, and been published in various magazines and newspapers.
Being a young member of the royal medical staff of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, he learned the Arabic language in the 1970s under the auspices of Malik Faisal bin Abdul Aziz and Malik Khalid bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia. Ahmed has traveled and studied the Muslim world and written several books on what Islam is as well as what it is not.
Dr. Shabbir Ahmed's published works include:
QXP, The Quran As It Explains Itself is one of the most popular newer renditions of the Qur'an. It has been published as a hard copy, audio CDs and is also available online at his site [www.ourbeacon.com]. It was written in a collaborative fashion on the internet with knowledgeable inputs from people across the world. It is different than most other translations of Quran due to the fact that it relies on the Quran itself to explain the verses of Quran. This method of understanding the Quran, known as tasrif, blocks external elements and narrations, thus allowing the reader to understand the Quran as it reveals itself. This is possible because of the repetitive nature of the verses in Quran, which are brief in one place but detailed in another. This internal cross referencing allows the reader to understand the Quran without the need for external material.
The simple logic of tasrif based understanding is that 'light', to be seen, does not need an external source of light'.
In 2010 Dr. Shabbir Ahmed was criticized for alleging in his books The Criminals of Islam and Islam-The True History and False Beliefs, that after writing his 300 volumes, authoritative Imam Razi confesses: "All my intellectual and supposedly logical statements in the explanation of the Quran turned out to be lame. All the explanations of the Quran done by the so-called Imams (Tabari, Zamakhshari, Ibn Kathir, Bukhari, Muslim etc) are misguided and misleading. All of us were the tools of Satan."
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