GREAT DEBATE : IS JAMAT DEMOCRATIC?
A debate between S A Hannan and Fatemolla
Published on September 30, 2007
Hannan: When I was in Lahore and I found Maududi a very nice person and scholar.
Dear members,
Assalamu Alaikum. I have very little to add on what I wrote before .Anybody who wants to know Jammate Islami or Sayyid maududi may look into their literature and also their political action in various countries to understand them. Quoting some sentences from here and there can not help understand any person properly. His books are open to all in sixty languages
and all of you can know him in the language you desire.
I was a student of sayyid Maududi when I was in Lahore and I found him a very nice person and scholar. His ideas like all other scholars also gradually matured .I found him all the time struggling against dictatorships and military rulers. He in the last part of life fought for democracy with his utmost capacity.
I can not respond on issues which are based on doubting or questioning intentions which is not known to me or anybody except Allah.( for instance this sentence of his quoteI just wanted to say Jamat is world's strongest anti-democratic force that wears election-cloak only to pose democratic to become acceptable. Its mission is diametrically opposite to many necessary
components and virtues of democracy that I listed before).
I will not respond further to this letter writer on this issue.
Shah Abdul Hannan