religious and this is what made it complex. The Kashmiri leadership made it an issue of establishing Nizam-e-Mustafa (establishment of Islamic Shariah). For example, Muslims in India participate in all aspects

aspects of life and avail all benefits, but if Indian Muslims were to start a campaign to establish Nizam-e-Mustafa in India, they would lose everything. Muslims cannot think of progressing separately from the

work towards attaining Paradise, which according to the creation plan of God will be man’s future abod e. Ungratefulness A great disadvantage of an ungrateful attitude is that it produces a mentality of non-acknowledgement

Christians in Malaysia to use the word 'Allah' for God actually gives Muslims a common ground (kalima e-sawa) with them. In this case, the Malaysian Christians have themselves provided this common ground

of God to all mankind in every generation is the eternal jihad. That is why it has been called jihad-e kabir or ‘great jihad’ in the Quran (25:52). Wahiduddin Khan February 25, 2021 New Delhi, India

at every moment. For instance, in this couplet by a Persian poet: Bar mazar-e-ma ghariban, nay charaghe, nay guley, Nay par-e-parvana raqsad, Nay sadai bulbule (I being a poor man, there is no lamp,

not the complete commandments of the deen, the deen in its totality. They take aqim ud-deen or iqamat-e deen not to mean establishing the entire shariah system, but, rather, as adopting fully that part of

which a person becomes a Muslim in God’s eyes. The translation of the term aqim ud-deen or iqamat-e deen as ‘establish the deen’—which is how proponents of the political interpretation of Islam render

regard in my book. The first had to do with Maulana Maududi himself, and the second with the Jamaat-e-Islami. As regards the first, I suggested that Maulana Maududi should declare that the conception of

he had focused on some aspects of the deen in particular. The second proposal was that the Jamaat-e-Islami should clearly acknowledge that the writings of Maulana Maududi were not an authoritative exposition