Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 54
Murder in the Name of Allah. Ninety-nine point nine per cent of the Muslim nation has no knowledge of Islam or the ability to tell right from wrong. They have directed neither their moral values nor their thoughts towards Islam. . A Muslim is a Muslim because his father was a Muslim and the faith is passed from generation to generation. These Muslims have not accepted this right because they believe it to be right, and neither have they rejected the wrong because they know it to be wrong. If Muslim affairs are ever handed over to these people and anyone thinks Muslim affairs will be properly run, he's living in fool's paradise. 16. He continues:. The process of democratic elections is like churning milk to obtain butter. If poisoned milk is churned, the butter will be poisonous too. So people who think that the Kingdom of God [Hukumat-i-Ilahiyya] will automatically result if Muslim areas are liberated from the Hindu majority, are wrong. They will end up with a heretic government of. Muslims [Kafirana hukumat]. " 18. The Maulana is more explicit in the following passage of the same book:. The nation called Musulman is made up of all kinds of rubbish. All types of characters found among unbelievers are found here. The number of liars appearing in law courts is no less than in the courts of other nations. . Bribery, theft, adultery, falsehood, in short, there is no form of moral depravity in which they are second to the unbelievers. [kuffar]. ". These Maududian edicts and injunctions are very comprehensive. . However, some may still doubt that these injunctions refer to the ordinary 99. 99 per cent of Muslims and that Muslim leadership and intellectuals are exempt from these constraints. But the Maulana made another statement about Muslim leaders and uiema to make it clear that any. Muslim who does not accept the Maududian creed has gone astray. The. Maulana says:. Western educated political leaders, ulema, and the scholars of Muslim jurisprudence, all these leaders are as misguided as each other, both in their means and their ends. They have lost the path of truth and have wandered blindly into the darkness. Not one of them has a Muslim point of view. 19. So, according to the Maulana, neither the 99. 99 per cent of Muslims nor their religious or secular leaders are on the right path. They have gone astray, their point of view is not Muslim, and all types of criminals found among the kuffar are also found among Muslims. If one were to have dubbed the umma a 'bunch of apostates' on hearing this description,. Maududi would have replied: 'You said it. ' He was not in the habit of mincing his words. Referring to those who quit the Jamaati Islami, he 54