Syed Abul Ala Mawdudi
Syed Abul Ala Maududi was born in 1903 in Awrangabad near Hyperbarabad in India.
A precocious child, he learnt Urdu, Persian and Arabic then, later on, English. He lost his father at the age of 16 and had to provide for himself. He started a journalistic career in Delhi, and was namely editor, from 1924 to 1927, at Al-Djam’iyyat, the media outlet of Djam’iyyat-i ‘ulama’-i Hind. During that period, Maududi participted in the movement that aimed to restore the Khalifa (or Khilafa) (political and spiritual) who was abolished by Atatürk in 1924.
For Maududi the separation of Pakistan and India is an obstacle to his conception of a universal Islamic state. He finally reconciled himself to the idea of partition in the early 1940s, under one condition, that the Muslim state be strictly Islamic in order to gather strength before reconquering the world.
Maududi develops a fundamentalist thought. He distinguishes the cult, which he considers of lesser importance, since it differs according to the regions, and political Islam, which aims to conquer.
Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme. (…) the objective of the Islamic ‘ Jihād’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.
For Maududi, the Sharia has to be built first, within the borders of Pakistan then expand to the whole of the Indian sub-continent.
He is the first, since 1939 to launch campaigns against the Ahmadis. A terror movement that resulted in the law calling for the expulsion of the Ahmadis from the community of believers.
Western education aimed, according to Maududi, at corrupting Muslim moral standards.
Organised attempts to de-Islamise the people are taking place in all the Muslim countries. Education is the backbone, which has been designed to eliminate Islam from people’s lives and alienate the future generations from their Islamic legacy. At the same time, new cultural values are being spread and promoted which are naturally designed to corrupt the Islamic morals. Western thinking and disciplines are being introduced and encouraged. But all that this can achieve, is to reduce the Muslims into character-less individuals; it can never succeed in persuading the Muslims as a whole, to abandon Islam and opt for a secular state instead.
A « democracy » needs to establish itself according to the principles, goals and Islamic civilization”.
In Europe, these books were initially distributed by the Islamic Foundation of Leicester then by the publishing house Tawhid thanks to Tariq Ramadan.
Mawdudi died in 1979, he was a fundamentalist theologian very popular and influential in Pakistan. He is the founder of Jamaat e Islami.
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