By TCN News,
Washington DC: The Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) have expressed their profund sorrow and grief on the demise of Dr Asghar Ali Engineer, renowned Indian Muslim scholar, reformer and community leader, in Mumbai.
In a press statement AIM noted, “For many decades now Dr Engineer was continually engaged in a
crusade to fight for justice for the suffering Muslims of India, to bring about social reforms in the community, to improve communal harmony between Muslims and other Indians, and to write very
meaningful essays on these subjects very frequently in the Indian and International media.”
AIM too had hosted Dr Engineer’s lectures in Washington DC during his many visits to USA, starting in 1990 when he was the keynote speaker at our Association’s convention.
AIM statement further observed, “His penchant to reform the Muslim society in India to make it more correctly follow the guidance from Quran and Hadith, and to give better equal rights to Muslim women
within that context are remarkable achievements that very few Muslim leaders in India can match.”
They prayed that God gives Indian Muslims the ability to follow in his footsteps to become better Muslims and better Indians. They also extended their condolences to his family and prayed for the salvation of his soul.