Selected speeches by Islamic Expert ABUL A’LA MAUDUDI.
Maududi; 25 September 1903 – 22 September 1979) was an Islamist philosopher, jurist, journalist and imam. Syed Abul A'la Maududi. In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and the Most Beneficent The first in a series of speeches and literature by Maududi. The word ‘ Jihād’ is commonly translated into English as ‘the Holy War’ and for a long while now the word has been interpreted so that it has become synonymous with a ‘mania of religion’. The word ‘ Jihād ’ conjures up the vision of a marching band of religious fanatics with savage beards and fiery eyes brandishing drawn swords and attacking the infidels wherever they meet them and pressing them under the edge of the sword for the recital of Kalima. The Artists have drawn this picture with masterly strokes and have inscribed these words under it in bold letters: ‘The History of this Nation is a tale of Bloodshed’. The irony is that the painters are no other than those benefactors of ...