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Abul A'la Maududi

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[Wikipedia] Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker of modern Islam", his numerous works, which "covered a range of discipli

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[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only…

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Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

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The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws…

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Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be…

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German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche,…

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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.

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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.

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