My new hero

Posted under history, thinkers by rahma

Before yesterday, I knew that Marmaduke Pickthall was an english convert to Islam and that he had translated the Qur’an.  Then I read this biography by prof. Abdal-Hakim Murad (also a spiffy guy).  SubhanAllah!  If I could accomplish 1/10th of what he did, I would be well satisfied. 

He died in a cottage in the West Country on May 19 1936, of coronary thrombosis, and was laid to rest in the Muslim cemetery at Brookwood. After his death, his wife cleared his desk, where he had been revising his Madras lectures the night before he died, and she found that the last lines he had written were from the Qur’an:

‘Whosoever surrendereth his purpose to Allah, while doing good, his reward is with his Lord, and there shall no fear come upon them, neither shall they grieve.’