User:RafiqT/Tschannen, Mohammad Rafiq Ahmad

Mohammad Rafiq Ahmad TSCHANNEN was born on 18th December, 1944, in Switzerland as Emanuel Bernhard TSCHANNEN to parents of the Protestant Christian religion. When growing up he started to question the teachings of Christianity. No one could give him satisfactory answers to such questions as "why did God not just forgive us, so that he did not need to sacrifice his only son?" Consequently at the early age of 15 he converted to Islam after reading a German translation of the Holy Quran. He found in the Holy Quran a description of God as All-Powerful and Merciful that he could relate to.

Mohammad Rafiq Ahmad TSCHANNEN persued in career in Administration and Finance, which took him from Switzerland via England and France to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Nigeria, again Switzerland, Antigua, Switzerland again, Thailand, Kosovo, Cyprus, Jordan and Iraq. Upto Thailand he worked as Director of Finance & Administration, in Kosovo as Chief Delegate of Caritas Switzerland and in Jordan and Iraq as Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration.

His interests include all aspects of the Islamic religion, culture and history and also in line with his profession Islamic Finance. He is a keen writer of letters to editors to present his views. He is currently also working on two books on the topics of Islamic cultural.