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The Jamaat has an organised Men youth wing known as Students Islamic Organization of India. Its organisation spreads across [[mosque]]s throughout India. The Jamaat also maintains religious charities, Interest Free Banking , Islamic schools. |
The Jamaat has an organised Men youth wing known as Students Islamic Organization of India. Its organisation spreads across [[mosque]]s throughout India. The Jamaat also maintains religious charities, Interest Free Banking , Islamic schools. |
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'''AIMS & METHODOLOGY''' |
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The aims and objects of the Jamaat-e-Islami have been explicitly stated in its Constitution. |
The aims and objects of the Jamaat-e-Islami have been explicitly stated in its Constitution. |
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Revision as of 18:23, 25 January 2007
The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the Indian offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Primarily a religious organisation, the Jamaat is also an active political organisation but it does not contest elections.
History
The Jamaat-e-Islami was formed in Lahore (now in Pakistan) by Maulana Maududi in 1941. After the partition of India, Maududi moved to Pakistan but a small group of Jamaat activists remained in India to preserve the Jamaat organisation there. While the Jamaat in Pakistan and Bangladesh are influential and active political parties, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind does not exercise much influence on the political situation in India, nor does it participate in elections. Yet, it remains one of the foremost Islamic political organisations in the country.
Mission
The Jamaat seeks to establish an Islamic State in India, which it advocates as the only solution to India's social and economic problems. It advocates the abolishment of secularism and democracy and the imposition of Shariah Islamic law. It often leads political agitation on the cause of Islamic law and other issues of the Muslim communities. The Jamaat has also worked to influence India's foreign policy to favour Muslim nations and condemn the policies of Israel and the United States. The Jamaat remains a fervent advocate of the independence of Palestine in India. In 1986, the Jamaat exerted considerable pressure on the Congress-led government to overturn the verdict of the Shah Bano case, which threatened the separate Islamic law code in India.
The Jamaat has an organised Men youth wing known as Students Islamic Organization of India. Its organisation spreads across mosques throughout India. The Jamaat also maintains religious charities, Interest Free Banking , Islamic schools.
AIMS & METHODOLOGY
The aims and objects of the Jamaat-e-Islami have been explicitly stated in its Constitution.
“The objective of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is Iqaamat-e-Dezen*, the real motive of which is solely the achievement of Divine pleasure and success in the Hereafter. “Explanation: The word “Deen” in the term “Iqammat-e-Deen” means that true Deen which Allah, the Lord of the worlds, has been sending through all His prophets in different ages and different lands and which He revealed in its final and perfect form for the guidance of all men, through His Last Prophet, Hazrat Muhammad (Allah's blessings and peace be on him!), and which is now in the world the only authentic, pristine Deen, and one which is acceptable to Allah, and the name of which is Islam.
“This Deen encompasses the exterior and the interior of man as well as all individual and collective aspects of his life. There is not even a single aspect of human life ranging from beliefs, rituals and morals to economic, social and political aspects which may be beyond its pale. “Just as this Deen ensures for Divine pleasure and success in the Hereafter, it is also the best system of life for the proper solution of worldly problems; and righteous and progressive reconstruction of individual and social life is possible only through its establishment.
“Iqaamat of this Deen means that it, in its entirety and without exercising any discrimination or division should be sincerely followed, and followed, single-mindedly. It should be so enforced and given effect to in all aspects of human life, individual as well as corporate that the development of the individual, the reconstruction of society and the formation of the State should all conform to this very Deen. “The ideal and the best practical example of the Iqaamat of this Deen is that which was set up by Hazrat Muhammad (Allah's blessings and peace be on him!) and the rightly guided Caliphs (May the Exalted Allah be pleased with them all!)”
Methodology
Article 5 of the Constitution reads as under:
“For the attainment of its objective the methodology of the Jamat-e-Islami Hind shall be as follows :
“(i) The Quran and the Sunna shall form the base of the Jamaat's activities. All other things shall be kept in view secondarily, only to the extent to which these could be accommodated in accordance with the Quran and the Sunna.
“(ii) In all its actions the Jamaat shall be bound by moral limits and shall never adopt such means or ways which are against truth and honesty or through which may come about communal hatred, class struggle and Fasaad fil arz1.
“(iii) For the achievement of its objective the Jamaat shall adopt constructive and peaceful methods ; that is, it shall reform the mental outlook, character and conduct through propagation (of Islam), instruction and dissemination of Islamic ideas, and thus shall train public opinion in order to bring about the desired righteous revolution in the social life of the country”.
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- It is very difficult to give an English equivalent of the term “Iqaamat-e-Deen”. It may, however, be rendered as the Establishment, Realization or Pursuit of Religion ‘Religion','Way of Life', or ‘System of Belief and Action', are however, a very imperfect rendering of the word ‘Deen'