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Maududi, Sayyid Abul A'la Al Jihad Fil Islam By Syed Abul Aala Maududi
Subject:Jihad in Islam Review By Jueefa Bilal
Juneefa Bilal
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Introduction
“Jihad in Islam” was originally written in Urdu under the title of ” Al-Jihad fil- Islam” in ... 1927 by Maulana Maududi who was the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest religiopolitical Islamic organisation in South Asia. It was his first regular book. The incident which provided Maulana Maududi an incentive for writing “Jihad in Islam” was the murder of Swami Shardhanand, founder of the Shudhi Movement because the person arrested for this act was a Muslim , and thus the opponents of Islam got an opportunity to propagate false views against Islamic Jihad. Enemies of Islam openly laid accusations against Islam that its teachings make the Muslims bloodthirsty and murderers. These views were propagated to a large extent that a individ like
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Author Information:
Abul A'la Maududi (Urdu: ابو الاعلی مودودی, Abul Alā Mawdūdī – alternative spellings of gods name Maudoodi, Mawdudi; 25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan.[1] Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker of modern Islam”,[2] his numerous works, which "covered a range of disciplines such as Qur’anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy and history",[3] were written in Urdu, but then translated into English, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Burmese, Malayalam and many other languages.[4] He sought to revive Islam,[5] and to propagate what he understood to be "true Islam".[6] He believed that Islam was essential for politics and that it was necessary to institute sharia and preserve Islamic culture similar to the re
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Al Islam
Surely, this is a reminder; so whoever wishes may take the way that leads to his Lord.
(Quran, 76.30)
In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.
—Maulana Maududi1
Maulana Maududi’s desire for political power knew no bounds. The law of apostasy which he evolved was an extension of his dictatorial and intolerant personality—it had nothing to do with Islam. Dr Israr Ahmad, who worked closely with Maududi, said that Maududi borrowed the principles of his movement from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and the Khairi brothers and the style of his presentation from Niyaz Fatehpuri. But he was so egocentric that he never acknowledged that his ideas came from anyone but himself.2
Similarly, the Maulana’s ideas on apostasy, though originating from an interpretive error of early Muslim jurisprudence (fiqh) are, in fact, based on medieval Christianity. The Deoband school; which was on