Part 2: Selected speeches by Islamic Expert ABUL A’LA MAUDUDI.
The second part in a series of speeches, writings by Maududi. In keeping with the standards of this Blog, I post here the Islamic jurisprudence in support of Jihad, from the pen and mouth of an eminent Islamic scholar, namely Seyed Abul Maududi. Causes of Misunderstanding about the Holy War: In any case, this is a part of political tactics. But from a purely scholastic standpoint when we analyse the causes due to which the red nature of the ‘Holy War for the Cause of God’ has become difficult to understand not only for non- Muslims but Muslims themselves, we discover two major and basic misconceptions. The first misunderstanding is that they consider Islam to be a religion in the conventional sense of the term ‘religion’. The second misconception is that they take Muslims to be a ‘Nation’ in the technical sense of this term. These two misunderstandings have not only mixed up the concept of Jihād’ but have changed the picture of Islam as a whole and ha...