Sabir Abdur Rahman

Sabir Abdur Rahman was born in India, raised and educated in Pakistan and has lived in America for over 57 years. As 7-year-old, he suffered the trauma of forced migration when his family was made to run across the border from India to Pakistan to save their lives. He grew up in Pakistan, went to school and college, and graduated with an MS in Mathematics. Then he came to USA to go to graduate school here and graduated with a second MS in Agricultural Economics from Univ of Maryland.

For over half a century he keenly observed the many transformations in social, economic, political and religious outlook and thought process of the great American society. He has held leadership positions in Islamic organizations and has actively participated in Inter faith circles for 40 years. He had brought his own perspective from Pakistan. Here he built on it through his study of the various perspectives to which he was introduced by his new environment. He discovered that, on the one hand, all perspectives contained wonderfully useful principles, but, on the other hand, very few were taking full advantage of the positive teachings of their chosen systems. He found that systems built on religious beliefs were all inward looking. They were absolutely sure of their own righteousness, and were greatly suspicious of all other systems, even they knew little about them, and did not want to know anything about them.

Troubled by such discoveries, Rahman has been attempting to find some meaning in human existence. It has not been easy, but he keeps on searching.