📘 ❞ CAPITALISM SOCIALISM AND ISLAM ❝ كتاب ــ Sayyid Abul A' la Maududi اصدار 2000

عن كتاب CAPITALISM SOCIALISM AND ISLAM:
The author of this pamphlet, Maulana Syed Abul Aa'la Maudoodl

Is a well-known scholar among the Muslim luminaries of the sub-conti-
nent 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 intri-
cate 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 dimen-
sions, and even specialists frl'ld it difficult to tackle problems created in

their particular fields. Mau Ian a Maudood i 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 encour-
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aged me In this task, like the publishers the world over, after comple-
tion of the translation consigned it to oblivion and It never saw the

light of the day, all my reminders notwithstanding.