Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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e. "It stated that groupism would not lead to
progreSs or bring salvation to man.
These group formations were all manmade.
The Deen prescribed by God was
but one. And what was this Deen but the
way of devotion to one common God
and of righteous living -the law of life,
. which one was not to stray.
f. "It announrlld in very clear terms that
its call was but to proclaim that all
religions were true and' that their
followers had disregarded . the truth,
which they embodied.· Should they
mum to this forgotten truth, the task of
the Qur'In was fulfilled. The act will be
regarded as indeed the acceptance ofthe
Qur'In. The truth common to all of
them was but wha~ it calls AI-Deen and
AI-Islam."
{TaJjunian al-Our'1n Vol: I, pp.
162-163;. (1947 Edition, pp. 213­
214)}
{This translation is taken from:
Maulana Abul Kalam Aiad:
TaJjuman al-Qur'an. Dr. Syed Abdul
Latif (edited and rend~ into
English), yol. I, S~AI-Fatiha,
Kazi Publications,J.aliore, pp. 181­
182}
At another place, Maulana Azad writes on the
differences of Shar'a and Minhqj as:
'The Qur'1n points out that neither
are . the conduct, ceremonials and
rituals theprjjltine reality,. nor are