MUMBAI: Son of late Imam Maulana Jamil Ahmed Ilyasi, TV Sponsor Suhaib Ilyasi has Composed a Novel on the teachings of Gita.
Titled Jeene Ki Raah: Shrimad Bhagavad Gita in Hindi was started by senior RSS leader and leader of Rashtriya Muslim Manch Indresh Kumar on Tuesday.
Ilyasi who’d hit the headlines for hosting the offense series’India’s Most Wanted’ on Television in the 1990s stated Gita’s universal message of encouragement and love to reach the goal prompted him to focus on this publication.
“Having read the commentaries and explanations about the Gita with a couple of Hindu and non-Hindu scholars, so I’ve concluded the bull carries messages that were contentious.
I’ve looked at it in a new perspective,” explained Ilyasi, that learnt fundamental Sanskrit in college.
He stated it took him two years to compose the book and as soon as the publishers, Prabhat Prakashan, delivered it to some noted scholar for vetting, no modification was completed.
“Not one comma or full stop was altered.
No religion ought to have an exclusive claim on holy scriptures.
As the Quran is for everybody, Gita also is for humankind.
It’ll be interpreted in Urdu and English also,” explained Ilyasi.
Indresh Kumar called it a significant work that will help comprehend the concept of Gita.
Ilyasi’s dad Maulana Imam Jameel Ilyasi was close to previous RSS Sarsanghchalak K S Sudarshan the latter had flown from Nagpur to attend to the Imam’s funeral at New Delhi in August, 2009.
“Sudarshanji cried in my dad’s passing, stating Mera bhai mar gaya (my brother’s dead).
He dominated the funeral preparations,” he remembered.
Ilayasi refused if his publication is prompted by any gain in the current BJP government at the Centre.
“I’m a non-political man and that I search no favours.
My goal is to bring both communities together and Bhagavad Gita is a great bridge between the communities,” he explained.
“Every faith speaks of angels and devils or shaitan.
Sacred scriptures direct us the way to eliminate satanic works” Ilyasi was acquitted by the Delhi High Court at 2018 on murder charges together with his wife Anju.
On his release he’d stated reading Gita, Upanishads gave him solace in prison as he prays five times per day.
His younger brother Maulana Umair Ilyasi currently directs the All India Organisation of Imams his late dad Maulana Jameel Ilyasi had set.
