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About the Author Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (1893–1985), may Allah be pleased with him, was distinguished not only as an expounder of Islam, but as a leader in public life. He is revered as an eminent com- panion of the Promised Messiah as, and a scholar in the field of comparative religion. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan ra was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan and led the case for the autonomous Muslim nation during the Radcliffe Commission, which drew up the boundaries for the present-day countries in South Asia. Subsequent to its independence, he was appointed as Pakistan’s Foreign Minister in 1947, and for many years he led the Pakistan Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. He was elected as the President of the General Assembly’s Seventeenth Session. While serving at the UN, he championed the cause for Palestinian, Kashmiri, and Arab rights, winning accolades across the Muslim world. He had also served as Judge and President of the International Court of Justice at the Hague. He is the author of a number of books about Islam and its comparative features with other faiths.