Izhar ul-Haqq or Izhar al-Haq (Arabic: إظهار الحق) is a book by Rahmatullah Kairanawi. Kairanwi had written this book in response to the allegations made by certain Christian missionaries against Islam and especially to counter Meezanul Haqq, a book written by Pfander against Islam.[1][2] The book was originally written in Arabic in 1864, this six-volume book was later translated (or summarized) into English,[3][4]Turkish,[5]Urdu and Bengali.[6]
Christine Schirrmacher describes the book saying:[7]
'The Demonstration of the Truth' (izhâr al-haqq) served as a summary of all possible charges against Christianity and was therefore used after al-Kairânawî's death as a sort of encyclopaedia since al-Kairânawî extended the material of former polemicists like 'Ali Tabarî, Ibn Hazm or Ibn Taymiyya to a great extent.
Kairanawi made use of Western Biblical criticism as well as theological works.[7]
Urdu translation[]
Late Maulana Akbar Ali Khan of Darul Uloom Karachi translated the book into Urdu. Mufti Taqi Usmani wrote commentary to it. He also wrote a preface to the book which now comes as a separate book, What is Christianity?[8] The translation and commentary have been published in three volumes.[9]
References[]
^Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi. Darul Uloom Deoband: Ehya-e-Islam Ki Azeem Tehreek (in Urdu). Darul Muallifeen Deoband. p. 115.
^Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanwi. The Truth Revealed(PDF). usislam.org. Translated by Muhammad Wali Razi. Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd. 1 Wynne Road, London. ISBN1-842000-4-62. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
