Introduction: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, an academic, philosopher, jurist, journalist, supporter of Islam, and imam, was born on September 25, 1903, in Aurang Abad, a princely state in Hyderabad, Hindustan (Now India). He was Maulana Ahmad’s third and youngest son. Maulana Maududi was a well regarded and well-read journalist, Islamic scholar, and leader of the Muslim resurgence in India and subsequently Pakistan during the 20th century. Maulana Abul Ala Maududi Death was due to renal disease.
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Maulana Abul Ala Maududi
Maulana Maududi various works were published in Urdu but were translated into several other languages, including English and Arabic. As a mujaddid, or “renewer,” of the faith, he worked not just to revive Islam but also to spread “true Islam,” a solution for the flaws Islam had through the years. To establish Islamic sharia law and protect Islamic culture from what he considered as the sins of secularism, nationalism, and women’s emancipation, he felt that politics were crucial for Islam. Over 1000 lectures and press releases, as well as books, pamphlets, and other writings by Maududi, served as the foundation for.
Education
Death had a home education beginning at a young age. His father and a few of the teachers he hired provided him a religious upbringing. He was thereafter immediately accepted into the eighth grade at Madrassa Furqania in Aurangabad. Despite being younger than his classmates, he outperformed them in every way there. He studied the foundational ideas of mathematics and physics in-depth since he was drawn to those subjects as well as chemistry.
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He enrolled in Darul Uloom in Hyderabad for his undergraduate studies, but due to his father’s illness and death, his studies had to be interrupted. As a result, he did not complete his degree at Darul Uloom. His education covered virtually little of the current school’s curriculum, such English or other European languages. At the age of 14, he purportedly translated 3,500 pages of the mystical Persian author Mulla Sadra’s book Asfar as well as Qasim Amin’s The New Woman into Urdu.
Journey As Editor
Maududi held the “very important and influential” post of editor of al-Jamiah, the periodical of the Jamiyat-i Ulama (an organization of Islamic clergy), from 1924 to 1927. Maududi, who had always been interested in India’s independence from the British, lost hope in the Congress Party and its Muslim supporters in the 1920s as the party grew more and more Hindu. He started to lean more toward Islam and thought that Muslims could only choose democracy if Muslims made up the majority of Indians. While still a young guy, Maududi spent some time in Delhi before returning to Hyderabad in 1928.
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He began to develop his political ideas and turn toward the cause of Islamic revivalism and Islam as an ideology, as opposed to what he called “traditional and hereditary religion” from 1932 to 1937, when he joined another journal (Tarjuman al-Quran). The Hyderabad government contributed to the journal’s funding by purchasing 300 subscriptions, which it then handed to libraries all around India. Maududi was concerned about the loss of Purdah among Muslim women in Delhi, the rise of secularism, and the demise of Muslim dominance in Hyderabad.
Politician
The Jamaat-e-Islami, at the time Asia’s largest Islamic organization, was founded by him. When the Indian independence movement was in full swing, Maududi and the Jamaat-e-Islami vigorously campaigned against the division of India. Following its occurrence, Maududi and his adherents began to politicize Islam and garner support for turning Pakistan into an Islamic state. They are believed to have been greatly strengthened by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq after tens of thousands of members and supporters were given jobs in the judiciary and civil service during his administration, which is thought to have contributed to his inspiration to introduce “Sharization” to Pakistan. In 1979, he became the first person to receive the Saudi Arabian King Faisal International Award for his contributions to Islam.
For his adherents, Maududi was a renowned mujaddid in addition to being a respected politician, thinker, and philosopher. His ability to withstand assassination attempts while the adversaries of the Jama’at—Liaquat Ali Khan, Ghulam Muhammad, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ayub Khan, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto—fell from favor or were slain added to his mystique. He insisted on speaking Urdu, a language he had a strong knowledge of, in order to liberate Muslim minds from the influence of English.
Maulana Abul Ala Maududi Death
Maududi had been suffering from renal disease for a while, and by April 1979, he was also experiencing cardiac issues. He travelled to the US for treatment and was admitted to a hospital in Buffalo, New York, where his second son practice medicine. He underwent a few procedures before passing away on September 22, 1979, at the age of 75. After a very huge funeral procession across the city, he was buried at his house in Achhra area of Lahore, but his funeral prayers were performed in Buffalo as well.