Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us?

Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us? an ideological continuity or continuity of religious ideas. But if the Maulana is to be believed, this belief is erroneous. Going by his understanding, Islamic history, during its long existence, was marked by an enormous vacuum which no one was able to address before the advent of the Maulana himself. In his preface to this book, the Maulana said: When the Quran was presented in Arabia, everyone knew what the word Ilah meant and who was called Rabb, because both these words were already used in their language. They knew what these words signified. And so, when they were told that Allah is the only Ilah and Rabb and that no one else shares in His Divinity and Sustainer-ship, they got the complete message. In the same way, the words ibadat and deen were already present in their language. They knew the meaning of ibadat and deen. And so, when they were told to abandon the servitude of everyone else and to serve God alone and to separate themselves from every other deen and enter God’s deen, they faced no misunderstanding in comprehending the message of the Quran. On listening to it they understood what changes this teaching wanted to make in their pattern of life. He continued: However, in later centuries, gradually the way these terms were understood began to shift from their original meaning, from how they were