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Murder in the Name of Allah 'Having read Maududi Sahib's writings I have concluded that he did not acquire the disciplines of Muslim legal philosophy and mysticism. He cannot write on them with authority. 22. The late Maulana Ahmad Ali Lahauri also wrote in the same vein:. Maududi Sahib wants to present a ‘New Islam' to the Muslims. And. Muslims will not accept a 'New Islam' unless the old Islam, which they have followed for the last 1,350 years, is not fully destroyed and it is proved that Islam has become irrelevant and impractical. 23. Maulana Maududi, as we have seen, was neither an historian nor a religious scholar. he was essentially a journalist and he had the two basic qualities of a journalist: a good command of the Urdu language and the ability to write quickly. The Al-Jamiyat was a bi-weekly at that time and he had to write his column on jihad within two or three days, in addition to editing his newspaper. Having no background in research and no time for it then, he mistook the battle of Hunayn (30 January 630), which came soon after the submission of Mecca (11 January), as a turning-point in. Islamic history. Since Islam's enemies were decisively beaten at Hunayn, the Maulana concluded that it was this victory and the political power gained through it which helped the conversion of the whole of Arabia to. Islam. Maulana Maududi is not alone in drawing this conclusion. The orientalists, who see no moral or spiritual force in Islamic teachings and are unable to understand the great miracles performed by our Holy. Prophet, have always put Muslim expansion down to force. The orientalists divided the life of the Prophetsa into two sections, the first the period of Meccan persecution and second the period of conquest after his migration to Medina. Our young journalist, Abul Ala Maududi, with his superficial knowledge of Islamic history, accepted this apparently simplistic but, in reality, very clever division of the Holy Prophet'ssa life. sa. Sa. Armed conflict, war and threats of war were forced constantly on the. Prophet. After he migrated to Medina, the pagans of Mecca and the Jews of Medina, encouraged by the hypocrites, busily plotted against Islam. . They inspired hatred against Muslims and worked pagan Arabs up to a fever pitch against the Holy Prophetsa. All the defensive actions the. Muslims were forced to take obstructed the Prophet's sa basic mission. . Muslims needed peace but, as our examination will show, that peace was deliberately disturbed to prevent them from spreading the new faith. 1 Islam's enemies used every means of communication against Islam. . For the Arabs, poets were historians, genealogists, satirists, moralists and 28