About three years after the publication of the English...

About three years after the publication of the English translation Rudolf Singler a German university professor translated it into German and the version lie produced proved influential in Germany. One of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party informed the translator in a letter that the book had left a profound impression upon him causing him to change his views of Islam and that lie would recommend the book to his friends. The German translation has now been reprinted three times.

The English and German versions of the book were reprinted by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance for wide distribution abroad through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Islamic Students' Associations abroad. At the same time that the first printing of the German translation was published an Indian Muslim scholar by the name of Mawlana Rawshan 'Ali translated it into Urdu for distribution in India and Pakistan. This Urdu translation has now been reprinted five times.

This book has also been translated iii to Japanese Spanish Arabic and French languages. Sayyid Mujtaba Musawi Lari has also written a pamphlet on Tawhid (divine unity) which was translated in England under the title Knowing God and published several times in ( 7 ) America. It has also been translated into Spanish Russian Polish Norwegian and Urdu languages.

In 1343/1964 he established a charitable organization in Lar with the purposes of propagating Islam teaching Islam to rural youth and helping the needy. This organization remained active until 1346/1967.

Its main accomplishments were the dispatch of students of the religious sciences to the countryside to teach Islam to children and young people; providing thousands of school children with clothing books and writing equipment; building a number of mosques schools and clinics in towns and villages; and the provision of miscellaneous services. Sayyid Mujtaba Musawi Lari pursued his interest in Islamic ethics writing new articles on the subject.

In 1353/1974 a collection of these articles revised and supplemented appeared in book form under the title The Role of Ethics in Human Development. The book has now been reprinted six times and the English translation is underway. In 1357/1978 he travelled to America at the invitation of an Islamic organization in that country. He then went to England and France and after returning to Iran began writing a series of articles on Islamic ideology for the magazine Soroush.