GREAT DEBATE : IS JAMAT DEMOCRATIC? A debate between S A Hannan and Fatemolla

GREAT DEBATE : IS JAMAT DEMOCRATIC?

A debate between S A Hannan and Fatemolla

Published on September 30, 2007

Fatemolla: Maududi is widely respected and a nice person? I�m not here to malign him personally. But his stand makes him and Jamat indigenously anti-democratic. .

Salam and thanks for closing the thread; I�m also making my last arguments. Maududi opposed Ayub Khan not in 1958 when Ayub came into power but much later when he needed open politics. Jamat-backed "Mulla-Military (read Dictator like Ziaul Haque) Alliance" is Pakistan's legacy since long. He also supported Fatima Jinnah in election against Ayub contradicting his own stand of following each of Prophet�s instructions (Islamic law and Constitution � page 140) that includes negation of women-leadership (Bukhari 709 Vol 5 etc). Rather, his support to dictators is amply proven by his acceptance of award from the Saudi monarch - his stand strengthens monarchy that is against our Prophet�s (SA) ideology.

He is widely respected and he must be a nice person � I�m not here to malign him personally. But his stand makes him and Jamat indigenously anti-democratic. Add this to my previous quotes and answer, - can support to slavery and rape of war-captives including �gifting� the girls (see attachments from his own) be democratic and Islamic?

� �The Islamic law on the point is that if the country of which these prisoners are nationals pays ransom, they will be released. An exchange of prisoners is also permitted. If neither of these alternatives is possible, the prisoners will be converted into slaves for ever. If any such person makes an offer to pay his ransom out of his own earnings, he will be permitted to collect the money necessary for the fidya (ransom) (Munir Report: page 225).�

� (Kindly refer to the scanned attachment below) - �Female prisoners of wars should be distributed among Muslim soldiers to have sex with them as they please without any bond of marriage. Furthermore, the military personnel should be permitted to exchange the captive girls among themselves (Tafheemat, part two, August 1951 edition, pages 290 � 324 and Tafseerul Quran, part one, edition 1951, page 340. Source: - �The Quranic concept of Nikah� by Akhtar Sherazi page 232 [*]).

This stand is clearly and strongly anti-democratic. He and his party want to fossilize us into tribal history while he himself admitted we need to update the anti-democratic structure of orthodox monarchy (so called Islamic State). Yet, he explains Al Ma'idah 48 in Tafheemul Quran: �Why do the religious laws propounded by the various Prophets differ in matters of detail? �.� It is God Himself Who altered the legal prescriptions TO SUIT DIFFERENT NATIONS AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES (Emphasis mine) �..�

That is exactly we want �our Islamic leaders must take Quranic guidance and develop our today�s specific need of secular democratic structure. But that could be hardly done because of his and Jamat�s strong anti-democratic orthodoxy.

It is unethical to claim all these quotes as �from here-n-there�; these are not guesswork or Maududi-bashing but analyses of a long journey through many hundreds of pages of his literature that make indisputable math. As of his and Jamat's activities 1971 and today's Pakistan are examples enough.

Salam to all, once again.

Hasan Mahmud.

[*] The source, "Quranic Concept of Nikah" made a mistake in reference. The scanned page is not from Mawdudi's Tafsirul Quran but his "Tafhim-ul Quran" where Mawdudi explains Sura Nisa Para 5.