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lemish as-Sahâba especially in his Urdu books. He defamed’Uthmân (radiy-Allâhu ’anh), the Khalîfat ar-râshid. He alteredthe terminology of Islam and blessed âyats. He insulted theSalaf as-Sâlihîn. All his writings openly revealed his desire forposition and fame. The members of the Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami, which was founded by the lâ-madhhabî, and many menof religious post in the Najd and Riyadh all love him and spreadhis Arabic books all over the world. Among them are Kusaimî,the author of Sarrâ’, and Nâsir Albânî, a mudarris at the Jami’atal-Madîna. Muhammad Zakariyya, a Pakistani man of religion,liked Mawdûdî’s writings at first, but later he wrote him a letterfull of advice and published a booklet covering his hereticalopinions when he sensed his heresy and deviation. Doctor’Abdurrazzâq Hazârawî Pâkistânî translated this booklet intoArabic and published it adding his comments. Those who read itwill clearly understand Mawdûdî’s opinions. Some of hisopinions are fisq (immorality); some are bida’; some are ilhâd(heresy); some reveal his ignorance in Islam; and others showthat he has not understood religious knowledge well. Hisvarious writings contradict one another.“Great Muslim scholars of India of every madhhab cametogether at Jam’iyyat al-’Ulamâ’ in Delhi on the 27th ofShawwâl, 1370 (August 1, 1951) and reached the conclusionthat Mawdûdî and his Al-Jamâ’at al-Islâmiyya causedsubversive people misleading Muslims and published this fatwâ(decision) in a book and in papers.” [1] And the scholars ofPakistan passed a resolution that Mawdûdî was a heretic whotried to make others heretics; this resolution was edited onceagain in the Akhbâr al-Jam’iyya in Rawalpindi on the 22nd ofFebruary, 1396 (1976).A certain group in the Muslim world propagandizeMuhammad ’Abduh, Mawdûdî and Sayyid Qutb’s ideas whichare against Islam, as if they were something ingenious. Theyintroduce their rebellious ideas as a struggle of heroism. Lestthe pure youngsters should fall for these tricky propagandasand false appraisals, we have conveyed the truth of the matterabove. The greatest proof for the correctness of these writings,which have been derived from sources searched for a long[1]Al-ustâd al-Mawdûdî, p. 7. Reproduced in Arabic by HakîkatKitabevi, Istanbul, 1977.- 189 -