Shabbir Ahmed (writer)

Dr Shabbir Ahmed
Born	August 14, 1947 Pakistan
Occupation	Medical Doctor
Language	Urdu , English
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	LMC, Jamshoro
Genres	History , Islam
Subjects	Qur'an, Comparative Religion, Hadith, History, IndoPak Subcontinent, Philosophy, Psychology, Iqbaliat, Medicine (Qur'anic)
Notable award(s)	Scholar of the New Millennium, "Media International", Canada. Columnist of the columnists, "Khabrain" Pakistan, "Urdu Times", New York.
Influences Allama Iqbal
[www.OurBeacon.com www.OurBeacon.com]

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 an 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 Quraish dialect in the 1970s under the auspices of Malik Faisal bin Abdul Aziz and Malik Khalid bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia. This dialect is very similar to the Arabic used in Muhammad's day. Ahmed has traveled and studied the Muslim world and written several books on what Islam is as well as what it is not.

Works

Dr. Shabbir Ahmed's published works include:

• The Quran As It Explains Itself:QXP [English translation and Tafsir]
• Islam As I Understand
• Islam: The True History and False Beliefs
• The Criminals of Islam
• Thus Speaks the Bible
• Karbala: Fact or Fiction?
• SIR, YOU SAID IT!
• When Is the Messiah Coming?
• Dual Islam
• Hashish From Qadian
• Who Wrote the Qur'an?
• Father of the Nation - Quaid-e-Azam
• A Collection of Authentic Ahadith
• Hindu Fundamentalism
• Thus Speaks the Qur'an
• The Ideal Prophet
• Islam For the Junior
• A History of Prophets
• AND 21 URDU BOOKS

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'.

Criticism

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."

He was criticized for using Imam Ibn Kathir's name in the list, since Ibn Kathir was born about 150 years after Imam Razi himself. Also he was criticized for using name of Allama Inayatullah Khan Al-Mashriqi, as the source of Imam Razi's strange confession described in page 190 of Mashriqi's book Hadith-Ul-Qur’an. In that page as well no reference could be found of the confession.

External links

• Official website, which has a link to some of his books in PDF format
• Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran
• Dr. Shabbir's Reference: when one is checked, a write-up which cross-checks one of the references provided by Dr. Shabbir Ahmed, and discloses with proper references one of the lies told by Dr. Shabbir Ahmed against Imam Razi

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Name	Ahmed, Shabbir
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Date of birth	August 14, 1947
Place of birth	Pakistan
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