A Summary of the Jamaat-e-Islami Movement

Question

What is the ruling concerning the Jamaat-e-Islami? Is the buying and selling of their books correct or not; and, further, what about the study of their books?

Answer

Sayyid Abul A‘la Mawdudi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, answering one of the questions in the course of an interview, said: “I was sixteen years old when I left college; then I took up desultory reading — I read whatever came before my eyes; this had a very bad effect on my heart and mind (so that certainty in Allah slipped away, the articles of faith appeared…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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