First an audio from 1989:

Javed Ghamidi’s audio from 2021:

Ghulam Ahmad Parwez (Punjabi: غلام احمد پرویز; 1903–1985) was a well-known teacher of the Quran in India and Pakistan.^[2] He posed a challenge to the established Sunni doctrine by interpreting Quranic themes with a logical approach.^[3][4] The educated populace held Parwez in high esteem, despite his encounter with numerous criticisms from conservative Islamic scholars throughout his tenure. The work ‘Islam: A Challenge to Religion’ is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant works in the history of Pakistan, according to Nadeem F. Paracha.^[5]

Parwez was born on 9 July 1903 in Batala, Punjab, in British India. He migrated to Pakistan in 1947. He delved into the holy book of Islam and other religious texts. In 1934, he obtained a master’s degree from the Punjab University.^[6][7] His ideas, based on modern science, helped people better understand Islam. He was introduced to Muhammad Ali Jinnah by Muhammad Iqbal. He was appointed to edit the magazine Tolu-e-Islam, which was established to counteract the propaganda emanating from certain religious circles that favour Congress. He was 81 years old when he passed away.^[6]

Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (Urdu: جاوید احمد غامدی, romanized: Jāvēd Aḥmad Ghāmidī; April 7, 1952)^[3] is a Pakistani philosopher, educationist, and a scholar of Islam. He is also the founding President of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organisation Danish Sara.^[4]

He became a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology (responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the Pakistani Government and the country’s Parliament) on 28 January 2006, where he remained for a couple of years.^[5] He also taught Islamic studies at the Civil Services Academy for more than a decade from 1979 to 1991.^[6] He was also a student of Islamic scholar and exegete, Amin Ahsan Islahi. He is running an intellectual movement similar to Wasatiyyah, on the popular electronic media of Pakistan.^[7] Currently he is Principal Research Fellow and Chief Patron of Ghamidi Center of Islamic Learning in United States. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi was named in The Muslim 500 (The World’s Most Influential Muslims) in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 editions.