The Beliefs of the Jamaat-e-Islami

Question

(1) Are the fundamental beliefs of the Jamaat-e-Islami in accordance with [those of] Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama‘a or contrary to them? Please write with proofs. (2) Is the Jamaat-e-Islami among the misguided sects or among the rightly guided ones? Please write with proofs. (3) As to the leading of prayer by the members and affiliates of the Jamaat-e-Islami — will prayer behind them be validly performed or not? That is, can [such a person] be anyone’s imam or not, and why so? Please write with proofs. (4)

Answer

In the books of the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami and of its senior officials there are present, in large number, such things as are contrary to the way of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama‘a. They keep their own independent terminology: the meanings of “sunna”, “uswa” (exemplary model)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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