Towards Understanding Islam

TowardsUnderstanding Islam

Author: AbulA’la Mawdudi

Publisher: DarAl Wahi

ISBN: 9789834361488

Price: RM21.50

Weight: 0.200kg

A simple andcomprehensive introduction to Islam.

"My purposein writing this book has been to provide all those persons -Muslimsnon-Muslims-who have no access to the original sources of Islam with a brief treatise giving a lucid, comprehensive and all-embracing view of Islam. That is whyI have avoided discussion over the minute details and have endeavoured toportray the entire picture of Islam in one perspective. Moreover, I have notconfined myself to stating what we Muslims believe in and stand for, but havealso tried to explain the rational bases of our beliefs. Similarly I have notonly presented the Islamic modes of worship and the outlines of the Islamic wayof life but have also tried to unveil the wisdom behind them. I hope this smalltreatise will go a long way to satisfy the intellectual cravings of the Muslimyouth and will help the non-Muslims in understanding our real position." - Mawdudi

"Ours is anage of anxiety and restlessness. A change is imperceptibly overtaking the world.The old order is disintegrating; the new one is, however, yet to come. Andhistory tells us that such ages of restlessness have also been periods of birthfor new movements and cultures. The world is in the grip of a tension andawaits a twentieth-century renaissance of man.Asignificant feature of the present century is the new and wide-spread trend ofIslam revival. After a long period of stagnation the world of Islam is risingfrom its stupor. A new awakening has appeared on the horizon; a new life isbeing infused into the community of Islam. This trend is visible in everycountry and at every place and has within it the possibilities of its becomingthe harbinger of a new age." - Editor Preface

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About theAuthor

Mawlana Mawdudioccupies a pivotal position in the movement for Islamic rebirth in the 20thcentury. He started his revolutionary mission at a time when the Westerncivilization was at the height of its intellectual and political power and whenalmost the entire Muslim world was in the grip of the western colonial rule.The demise of the Ottoman Caliphate had extinguished the last apparent hope ofthe Muslim Ummah. The clouds of gloom were cast upon the Muslim world. Thehorizon looked dark and dismal. It was in this background that a young scholarMawdudi raised a clarion call for Islamic revival and reassertion. He invitedthe Muslims to the real source of their strength : The Qur'an and Sunnah of theProphet Muhammad P.B.U.H. He awakened the Muslims to a new goal and mission tolive and to die for Islam