ABOUT AUTHOR:
Shaik Kausar Niazi was bornon April 21, 1934. At 40, he is among the youngest members of the Cabinet where, for the last three years, he has been Minister first for Information and Broadcasting, Awqaf and Hajj. He speaks several languages, including Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English. His knowledge of Islamic theology is as unique as his acquaintance with the best in world literature, not necessarily religious. The practical thinker that emerges from the book uplifts the Kausar Niazi to the plane of one truly learned in the ways of Islam, whose “Fundamental Truths” are as right today as they were fourteen hundred years ago. These, supported by the sayings of the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), are applicable as much to the scientific twentieth century as they were to the nomadic tribes of Arabia when the Holy Quran was revealed. Indeed, Fundamental Truths is as much a study of Islam in depth, in the clearest terms possible, as it is a lesson in the application of these Truths to individual, communal and national requirements, anywhere, in any age. Kausar Niazi’s facile style dispels the wrong notions about Islam, ignorantly entertained, or deliberately foisted, forcefully rebuts the falsehoods spread about it and proves the everlasting quality of the Religion and its easy to understand and apply lesson, no less than it establishes the Eternity and Unity of God and the finality of Prophethood.
Shaik Niazi is essentially a man of the people, having risen from among them and serving them through the People’s Government wisely stewarded by his leaders, and that of the people, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Elected on Mr. Bhotto’s call in 1970 with an overwhelming majority, Maulana Niazi, then serving a term as a political prisoner, was chosen to be a Cabinet Minister when Mr. Bhutto became President. The Niazi’s life is a story of vicissitudes, of fortitude in the face of misfortunes and of humanity towards his fellow beings. That most of it was spent in the company of the Common Man is not fortuitous.
