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Capitalism Socialism and Islam Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi illuminating these famous international theories in the persepective of Islam as a religion

CAPITALISM SOCIALISM AND ISLAM

Book Prologue

He says:

The author of this pamphlet, Maulana Syed Abul Aa’la Maudoodl Is a well-known scholar among the Muslim luminaries of the sub-continent and occupies a unique position of eminence in the Muslim World, not shared by many.

 He Is a versatile genius and has not touched upon any subject that he has not adorned.

 He has clarity of thought and lucidity of expression with an extraordinary command over language, and in the fewest possible words analyses and expounds the most intricate problems in a way that the reader simply marvels at and Is carried away with the force of his argument and the charm of his language. He has a style, all his own, not easy to emulate.

There are few themes under Islamic faith and practice and the affairs touching the life of the Muslim community that have escaped his prolific pen, and it is really marvellous the way he resolves the knotty problems of the community for the general run of readers and provides

food for thought to the scholar, only shorn of learned terminology and academic style.

Economics and politics have, in recent times, acquired vast dimensions, and even specialists find it difficult to tackle problems created in their particular fields.

MauIana Maudood has no claims to erudition in either subject, yet he has touched upon both in connection with the Islamic Economics and Polity and his writings bear ample testimony to the fact that he has a deep insight into both.

The pamphlet in hand is a part of his book Interest’ in two volumes dealing with various Economic Systems of the world, and was published separately some twenty years back before completion of the second volume.

It impressed me so much that I not only recommended it to all those who could read the original, Urdu version, but resolved to convey it through English translation to all such as could not have direct access to it as such.

However, the publishers who had encouraged me In this task, like the publishers the world over, after completion of the translation consigned it to oblivion and It never saw the light of the day, all my reminders notwithstanding.

It Is from a dust-laden and hurriedly scribbled first copy of the rendering of the original that this improved version got resurrected. Things have changed since then. But the changes affect only the ephemeral not the eternal truths which must abide.

Capitalism, Nazism (Fascism) and Communism have been the theme of so many books by Muslim writers in this country and else­ where, but few have done justice to them.

The lslamists have either cursorily brushed them aside as heresy and as such unworthy of their serious attention; others taking sides with either of the m, according to their personal leanings, have tried to equate and identify its spirit with that of Islam in a shamefaced, apologetic manner.

Not so with Maulana Maudoodi. He has the courage of his convictions on the one hand, and on the other, is most fair and impartial in his criticism.

His worst opponents, save the fanatical few, he admitted that his brief stock-taking of these economic world orders, is the fairest that can be expected from a staunch believer in Islamic faith and his deep insight into them is really marvellous.

One may not agree with the panacea prescribed by him for the ills of the unbalanced tyrannical economic system under which humanity is groaning today, but it L very difficult to find fault with his analysis of the malady.

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