Fundamentals Of Islam By Sayyid Abul A La Maududi Summary

The book I’m reading is Fundamentals of Islam by Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi.

My impresion :

1 .Title – the title itself (without reading the book) suggests that ,by reading this book I will get to know Islam better and I target that after finishing this book I will be a much better Muslim, with a better range of understanding of this religion.

2. Preface – based on the publishers note, this book I’m reading is a collection of of friday sermons of Maulana which he delivered before the simple illiterate villagers who used to come for juma’ prayer in the mosque of Dar-ul Islam ,Pathankot. Therefore the writing style is from the first point of view, where it is as if the writer speak directly to the reader. On my behalf, while reading this book

Why despite thousands of salah that we'd done and hundreds of days that we'd fast our Ummah is still progressing low and sufferings afflicted us all over the globe. If Ibadah is meant to be the source of our strengths and will ennoble us in this world why then they have no or little effect in actuality. The problems in fact lies within the Muslims themselves. We failed to realize that Ibadah has two components: 1) the spirit(ruh) or purpose
2) The method or

This weakness is found even among some great claimants to Islam . They will shout Islam ,Islam ; their tongue will be dried up in extolling Islam ,they will also do some ostentatious work for it, but if they are told : let us enforce on ourselves the law of Islam which you are praising so much, they will at once say : there is this difficulty and that obstruction in it : better leave it for the time being . This is the result of such an attitude that neither salah is now effectual ,nor fasting ,nor Quran recital nor the outward adherence to shariah. The reason is that, when the spirit is gone, what miracle can a soul-less body perform?” 3) Jihad

Based on Maulana Maududi’s view :

It would be enough to state that the real objective of Islam is to remove the lordship of man over man and to establish the kingdom of God on earth. To stake one’s life and everything else to achieve this purpose is called jihad while salah , fasting ,hajj and zakat are all meant as a preparation for this task. A true mukmin is identified by his effort to obliterate that false deen and establish in its place the true deen. There is no change possible without struggle As a conclusion, the ideas of Maududi has been summarized as follow: Instil the Islamic attitude towards life and morality so that Muslim’s way