Hussain Khan was born in 1933 in Hyderabad Deccan and migrated to Pakistan post-independence. Khan, a renowned personality in the Islamic world, has spent the past 45 years of his life rendering service to Islam and one of his greatest achievements is the translation of parts of the Qur’ān into Japanese. The translation, no doubt, would help a large number of Japanese Muslims who earlier could not find a way to understand the message of Allah because of their incapacity to understand it in Arabic or in any other foreign language.
At the time he went to Japan on invitation from Mr. Abdur Rahman Siddiqui, he was working with Jamaat-e-Islami in the East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) and was heading the labour organisation in Chittagong. His enthusiasm and activism led to the end of communist’s influence in the region. However, despite him being an important personality in East Pakistan, Maulana Maudoodi relieved him from all his Jamaat activities in East Pakistan and allowed him to go to Japan and do Dawah work there.
He reached Japan in 1965 and in 1968 wrote a critique on the economic system and completed his M.A. in Economics from one of the top universities of Japan. He also worked in NHK (Radio Japan’s Urdu section). He gave regular lectures on the rise and fall of the Japanese economy and its currency which continued to be aired from the Japan’s Radio TAMPA and got published regularly in various magazines and journals. Asia Times, a Hong Kong based daily, continued to publish his works and articles. At the time when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was trying to bring socialism in Pakistan, he wrote a 100-page article against the concept, which was well received among the masses and Maulana Maudoodi himself urged the people to read the article till the end.
Besides the work in the academic field, he worked shoulder to shoulder with the founder of Islami Markaz, Dr. Saleh Mahdi Samrai and associated himself with Islami Markaz and Japan Muslim Association and remained General Secretary of both the organisations. He, along with the Saudi Embassy, tried to get a place for the graveyard for Muslims and managed to secure the land, which in itself was a great achievement. He is the first non-Japanese Muslim who gained such a mastery and command in Japanese that he finally started translated the Qur’ān into Japanese along with its brief explanation.