Samina Malik travels about eight months out of the year, meeting with translators around the world in an effort to help publish the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, in 24 languages.
As vice president of the Dublin-based Lahore Ahmadiyya Islamic Society, Malik does the work for free, even paying her own travel expenses, in an effort to spread the word about the spiritual, peaceful aspects of her faith.
“It is very important for us to take this message abroad, because what’s going on in this world, this is not Islam,” she said. “All this killing and fighting and bombing and all that, Islam doesn’t teach us to do this. So this is the reason we are traveling and trying our best to help not only non-Muslims, but Muslims also.”
