Islam's Reformers .pdf

would be to reinforce the teachings of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna. A Muslim who is not a mujtahid is called a muqallid(follower). Today, we all the Muslims on the earth are muqallids.No matter how much learned a muqallid is, he cannot do ijtihâdover a matter disagreeing with what the mujtahids havecommunicated before; this is understood from the unanimityquoted from Ibn Malak above. The hadîth, “My umma will notagree on deviation,” indicates that this unanimity of scholars isa means of salvation and is correct.46 - Mawdûdî was one of the descendants of Khwâja Qutbad-dîn Mawdûd al-Chishtî, a notable of the Chishtiyya tarîqa.Hadrat Mu’în ad-dîn al-Chishtî of Ajmar was Qutb ad-dîn’scaliph, one of those whom he had ordered and givenpermission to guide the people who wanted to learn. Mawdûdîwas born in Hydarabad in 1321 (1903). He died in the UnitedStates and was buried in Pakistan in 1399 (1979). He began toearn his living as a journalist. With his first book, Holy War inIslam (1927), he spread his revolutionary ideas. When it wastranslated into Arabic, it influenced Hasan al-Bannâ’s thoughtsand caused him to revolt against the government in Egypt andto be killed. Mawdûdî’s inefficiency in knowledge has broughtinnumerable other Muslims to substantial and spiritual death, forno Islamic scholar has ever taken any interest in politics orthought of revolution. They have guided people to the rightcourse through knowledge and advice. They have known thatIslam will spread not through revolution but through knowledge,justice and morals. Mawdûdî strove to solve all the mainprinciples of Islam with his own reason and always disagreedwith Islamic scholars and Islamic knowledge. If you observe hisbooks minutely, you will easly see that he was in a struggle ofdisseminating his own thoughts under the name of Islam. Heput Islam into various shapes in order to adapt it to modernforms of government. He envisioned Islam’s institution ofcaliphate in his imagination and attacked almost all the caliphs.The annihilation of Islamic scholars, and consequently ofIslamic knowledge, by the British and their servants facilitatedthe spread of his aberrant ideas. The ignorant people who werenot at a level to read and understand the books of Islamicscholars readily thought of him as a scholar, as a mujâhid. Hispolitical thoughts were considered extensive Islamic knowledge.Mawdûdî managed to take advantage of this state of languor- 186 -