Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us?

Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us? basic Quranic terms that Maulana Maududi has unveiled are preeminently political. In this way, it is clear that, according to him, the political dimension is the essential subject-matter of the Quran, more than three-fourth of the Quran’s teachings, and in fact, its essential spirit. It is this political dimension that, in his view, is what he calls the Quran’s ‘central teaching’ and ‘essential subject-matter’. If what the Maulana said is really true, then he has been very charitable by ascribing unawareness of the meaning of the Quran only to the later period of Muslim history, otherwise he could have extended his point even beyond that period! If, according to the Maulana’s argument, the ‘essential subject-matter’ of the Quran has been veiled at the ideological and intellectual levels, it is but to be expected that this would greatly impact on the efforts of ulema and religious reformers. According to a hadith report, in every century God will appoint a mujaddid, someone who will renew His deen. According to this prophecy, not less than a dozen mujaddids must certainly have appeared so far. But from the perspective of the political interpretation of Islam, it would appear that in the history of the last 1400 years, not a single person has been born who could, according to this interpretation, be considered to be a mujaddid in the full sense of the term. Maulana Maududi tried to solve this question by arguing that mujaddids are of two types: partial