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In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.

— Abul A'la Maududi

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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.

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.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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