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1903–1979 Pakistan
Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti (Urdu: ابو الاعلی مودودی; September 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979), also known as Abul A'la Maududi, was a journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher. He was the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the first recipient of the King Faisal International Award from Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan Activists Educators Journalists Non-fiction authors Also known as: Abul Ala Maududi, Maududi, Maulana Maududi, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Mawdudi, Sayyid Abdul Ala Mawdudi
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It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God’s troopers.
The reforms which Islam wants to bring about cannot be carried out merely by sermons. Political power is essential for their achievement.
Islamic Law and Constitution, 177. in Ibn, Warraq (2017)
It is made clear that one need not guard one’s private parts from two kinds of women – one’s wives and slave-girls.
In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.
Islam is a revolutionary ideology and programme which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.
German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.
The power to rule over the earth has been promised to the whole community of believers; it has not been stated that any particular person or class among them will be raised to that position. From this it follows that all believers are repositories of the Caliphate.
Political Theory of Islam, 35. in Ibn, Warraq (2017)
“God has prohibited the unrestricted intermingling of the sexes and has prescribed purdah [a word of Persian origin meaning the religious and social practice of female seclusion]” recognizing “man’s guardianship of woman,” for Muslims must guard against “that satanic flood of female liberty and licence which threatens to destroy human civilization in the West.”
(The) materials for the constitution of an Islamic state are to be found in four principle sources, the Koran, the Sunna of the Prophet, the conventions and practices of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs, and in the rulings of the great jurists of the Islamic tradition.
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