The Issue of Taqlid and Jamaat-e-Islami

Question

Respected and honoured Mufti, salam masnun (the greeting of the Sunna)! I had sent several questions to you; you gave answers to all of them, but the question concerning the Mawdudi Jamaat you did not answer — rather you put it off, saying: enquire at such-and-such a place. Now I request once again that we be told plainly: what is Mawdudi’s creed (‘aqida)? And in legal issues (masa’il), is he bound to some imam and his muqallid — is he a Hanafi, or a Shafi‘i, or Ahl-e Hadith?

Answer

Respected Sir, may your honour be increased! As-salamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I had already written in my earlier reply to you that the beliefs and practices of this Jamaat — and in particular this matter of whose muqallids they are — should be enquired of them themselves: when the holder of the belief and the doer of the deed is himself present, what need is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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