Woman in Islamic  Shari‘ah
        
        
          5. Muslim women
        
        
          ~ 118 ~
        
        
          Department of Technical Education run by the
        
        
          Government of Uttar Pradesh, from which he
        
        
          retired as Deputy Director. By virtue of his hard
        
        
          work, faultless character and principled life, he
        
        
          commanded the respect of his whole department.
        
        
          As for myself, I was interested in religious
        
        
          education, having been initially educated in an
        
        
          Arabic school. I later worked hard to learn the
        
        
          English language and made a thorough study of
        
        
          whatever academic literature was available to me in
        
        
          English. Now, by the grace of God, I am able to
        
        
          work in a positive and constructive manner, as I am
        
        
          sure the readers of my works will confirm.
        
        
          One special aspect of my work — the call to
        
        
          Muslims to rise above negative thinking and
        
        
          become more positive in their approach — has
        
        
          found an effective vehicle in the
        
        
          AI-Risala
        
        
          monthly
        
        
          which I started in 1976.
        
        
          AI-Risala’s
        
        
          mission has, by
        
        
          the grace of God, assumed the form of a powerful
        
        
          movement all over the Muslim world. I frequently
        
        
          receive oral or written comments from academic
        
        
          circles which acknowledge that
        
        
          AI-Risala’
        
        
          s is the
        
        
          first Islamic movement in Modern times which has