The day is not so far when the non-Muslims would be lining up for the Holy Qur’an; the Patna book fair confirmed it recently. The Holy Qur’an was the most selling book in the fair with more than 500 copies sold and most of it bought by the non-Muslims. The fair started on December 1 and lasted till December 13.

Mushtak Umri, the sales manager of New Delhi based Goodword Book, sold around 250 copies of the Hindi Qur’an with more than 10...

The grave of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, popularly known as Hakim-ul-Ummat, and those of his wife, his brother Khan Bahadur Mazhar Ali and his friend Maulana Zahoorul Hasan were leveled and desecrated in the dead of night at his native place Thana Bhawan in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh on December 17.

The incident caused great panic in the entire area and the followers of Hakim-ul-Ummat started coming in large numbers to the Ashrafi graveyard...