correspondence, Maulana Maududi failed to satisfactorily reply to any of the issues I had raised. Instead, what he did was to say all sorts of things about me. When I insisted that he should come to the point,

himself had the power only of punishing his critics through his pen. This is a classic example of what, as I mentioned at the outset, Maulana Darybadi termed as a ‘diseased mindset’.

in their normal colours. On the other hand, the second person will perceive everything, no matter what its real colour, as yellow. He will not be able to perceive any other colour, no matter where he looks

politics. Then, every aspect of the deen comes to be wrongly seen as being underpinned by politics. What is the difference between stressing, from the point of view of dawah, a certain aspect of the deen

himself and be able to make a correct judgment of the situation. Therefore, what he has to do now is to make a reassessment of what has gone before and in that light re-plan his actions realistically. The

Event or Incident of Tartar Attacksfirst we have to see, as far as a plan is concerned, what is workable and what is not workable. In this way, we can save ourselves from futile activities. One has to

this issue. Isn’t this the height of absurdity? People do everything they can to save themselves from what they regard as failure in this world. But they do nothing to save themselves from failure in the eternal

eternal world of the Hereafter— sometimes out of ignorance, and sometimes even knowing full well what they ought to do. Living Awareness of Death The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: “Remember

silent. But instead of this, they are sunk in fun and frolic and are laughing away uncontrollably. What is that terrifying event that they are going to face? It is the event of death. Every person who takes

of the term, since after being created, we have actually all become eternal. Every person has, come what may, to live forever, even after death. After death, suddenly every person will find himself in a

this temporary, ephemeral world what can be obtained only in the world of the Hereafter. To save oneself from this tragedy, very early on in life one should learn what the Creator’s creation plan is.

is announcing what the nature of this world is; why a human being has been born into this world; wherein one’s success and failure lie; whence one has come and whither one will return; what the divine criterion

the only opportunity of building the world of tomorrow. Man desires to achieve in the present world, what is to be achieved in tomorrow’s world. This is the reason he loses both of them. The wise man is the

understands the difference between today’s world and tomorrow’s world; who does not desire in this world what is to be achieved in the post-death world. A man ought to be a realist. He must not chase after his

it would be impossible for us to attain our objectives, no matter in what field. In many cases, we might not even understand what our objectives ought to be. All our journeys have to commence from the