Dates
Sir Zafrulla Khan
Bonus
100

What edition was Zafrulla Khans address to the UN assembly in?

December 2002 edition of The Review of Religions 

100

What year was he born?

1893

100

Mosque in Al-Quds

Al-Asqsa

200

When was Palestine taken by the British? 

1918

200
What language did Zafrulla Khan translate the Holy Quran into?

English

200

What is the capital city of Palestine?

Jerusalem 

300

What year was Palestine first occupied? (Hint the same year as the UN partition plan was voted on)

1947

300

Fill in the blank: Sir Zafrulla Khan is most commonly known as the first ever "_____ _____ of _____"

Foreign Minister of Pakistan

300

Who said the following quote?

We are often apt to read history backwards, which, I submit, is a very wrong method of reading history. History, in order to be properly appreciated, has to be read forwards. One must put oneself behind the events which one desires to evaluate, and then judge and appraise them.


Sir M. Zafrulla Khan

400

How long was Zafrulla Khan a foreign minister?

He was a minister from 1947 to 1961

400

What three people did he have the honor to be a companion to?

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi.

400

The first people to settle in Palestine?

The Canaanites. Canaan, area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centred on Palestine. Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites.

500

What time did the UN assembly start? What month was it? What year?

Held in the General Assembly Hall at Flushing
Meadow, New York, on Friday, 28 November
1947, at 11 a.m.

500

Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan ends his remarks with: Our last cry is: All praise is due to God, the Lord of all the Universes.

(translated from arabic) What is the translation is Arabic?


Al-ḥamdu l-illāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīn

500

What words are missing from this quote?

'May He who controls all _____ and knows their innermost thoughts and designs, who alone can appraise the true value and foresees the consequences of all ______ action, in His Grace and Mercy so guide our judgment that what we decide here today shall promote and foster the peace, prosperity and welfare of all His creatures, ____, Arabs, and Gentiles alike, and shall redound to His Glory forever.'

'May He who controls all HEARTS and knows their innermost thoughts and designs, who alone can appraise the true value and foresees the consequences of all HUMAN action, in His Grace and MERCY so guide our judgment that what we decide here today shall promote and foster the peace, prosperity and welfare of all His creatures, JEWS, Arabs, and Gentiles alike, and shall redound to His Glory forever.'