Brother, How easy it is to refer to other sites with the intent of denigrating personalities. But the trick will not work in the court of Allah SWT, You will be accused of Character Assasination without offering the victim a chance to defend, I suggest you spend your time in waking up your like ulemas. There collaborative silence on current issues has become too deafening to bear, Abu Maryam
"M. Malhar"@yahoo.com wrote:
http://www.allaahuakbar.net/jamaat-e-islaami/maududi/index.htm
Abu A`la Maududi
This is a man who reviled many of the Prophets of Allaah and the Companions
of Allaah's Messenger as well as promoting un-Islamic revolutionary modes of
thought.
Regarding Abul A'la Maudoodi's rejection of the Dajjaal
Who was Abul Alaa Maududi?
A brief history of the Maududi calamity
May Allah save us from Misguidance!
Malhar
-----Original Message-----
From: "S A Hannan"@mgw.lankabell.com [mailto:"S A Hannan"@mgw.lankabell.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:35 PM
To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World
Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Maulana Maudoodi and Indian Muslims --a brief
note by Kaukab Siddique
Dear sirs,
Assalamu alaikum.Please read this response from an erudite scholar to whom
I referred a question posted in internet against Sayyid maududi.
Shah abdul Hannan
Maulana Maudoodi and Indian Muslims
a brief note by Kaukab Siddique
A distinguished Bangladeshi brother, S. A. Hannan, has asked me to
comment on some abusive attacks on Maulana Maudoodi [rahmatullah alaih]
published on line on several discussion groups.
Syed Abul 'Ala Maudoodi was undoubtedly among the greatest Islamic scholars of
the 20th century c.e. He taught the Muslims of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
to understand the relevance of Islam to our times in rational and scientific
terms. His contributions to Islamic learning in our times are simply too many
to be listed. Suffice it to say that the modern Islamic movement at least in
South Asia would have been unthinkable without him.
This does not mean that he should not be criticized. He wrote to me: "I have
never considered myself above criticism." He wanted Muslims to pick up from
where he had left and to carry on his work, and not to come to a stop as if he
is the last word.
However, criticism to be legitimate has to be honest. If stories are fabricated
about him, or his writings are taken totally out of context, that cannot be
considered criticism. That is abuse and propaganda. I am not surprised that
some people have an irrational hatred of Maudoodi. He was not only a scholar
but the leader of an organized and disciplined Islamic movement. Thus he was
able to challenge the enemies of Islam on a daily basis. He was repeatedly sent
to prison and the Pakistani media for decades would not mention the fact that
he even existed, in a futile effort to stop the spread of his ideas. He had
well placed enemies among a variety of groups who opposed the emergence of an
Islamic view of life.
For the specific issue under review, remember that Maudoodi was himself an
"Indian Muslim" though he became a leader of international dimensions. In the
three volumes of Musalman awr Maujuda Siyasi kashmakash, he criticized the
movement for Pakistan while he provided the idea of Pakistan and the Pakistan
movement all its ideological tools. His contention was that the strategic issue
is not Muslim nationalism but the emergence of a viable Islamic political
state. If Pakistan emerges and it is not Islamically structured and does not
provide Islamic justice, he thought, it would jeopardize not only its own
existence but that of the Muslims of India too.
He wrote that for him one square mile of land governed by the Law of Allah was
more important than all of India. Obviously such writing can be taken out of
context and used against him. The Pakistani secularists claim that he was
against Pakistan. It's a ridiculous claim for one who knows the writings of
Maudoodi and in any case becomes merely a part of historical polemic when one
realizes that Maudoodi and Jamaate Islami fought for the independence and
ideology of Pakistan as no other group did.
Many of the Muslims of India cherish Maudoodi's ideological writings and those
who read him know that he was unflinching in his support of India's Muslims
even after he left India. Islam is not a national religion and Maudoodi was not
a national leader.
The person you have quoted is not a scholar or even a known person. He is
quoting out of context from Dr. Israr [an intellectual pygmy as compared to
Maulana Maudoodi] and the Munir Report written by a bunch of secularists who
supported the "Ahmeddi" [Qadiani] sect and wanted to sentence Maudoodi to death
for his x-ray study of the fake Qadiani religion.
The person you quote has evidently not studied anything written by Maudoodi and
is picking up quotes from here and there.
I had the honor of reading all his books. I then translated and put together a
selection of his writings which I titled Come Let Us Change this World. I
remember strolling with him in the little garden in front of his office as he
looked at and approved the manuscript of this book. Here is a quote from this
book which criticizes Muslims and lead him to be hated by narrow nationalists
and racists:
"The nation known as Muslim today has forgotten, and by its conduct has led
the world to forget, the fact that Islam actually is the name of a movement
which started with a purpose and some principles. And the word 'Muslim' was
meant for the group which followed this movement and went forward with it. The
movement has been lost sight of. Its purpose has been forgotten. Its principles
have been broken one after the other and its name, having lost all its
significance, is now merely used to denote racial and social allegiance. So
much so that it is used even on occasions where the very purpose of Islam is
negated, where its principles are demolished and where, instead of Islam there
is all that is not Islam." [Muslaman awr Mawjuda Siyasi Kashmakash, Part II,
pp. 40-41.] [p.88 of my translation]
I hope you are doing well in Dhaka. I love Bangladesh. I visited several times
and will visit again, inshallah.
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