Witnesses unto Mankind: The Purpose and Duty of the Muslim Ummah

by Abul A'la Maududi, Khurshid Ahmad (Translator)

Unless Muslims fulfil their covenant with Allah and become His witnesses unto mankind, as were all of His Messengers, they will continue to suffer ignominy and misrepresentation.Witnesses Unto The Purpose and Duty of the Muslim Ummah is a new, edited and extended English version of Sayyid Mawdudi’s Urdu Shahadat-i-Haqq, an address he delivered at a Jama‘at-i-Islami conference in 1946.

77 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 26, 2015

About the author

Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi [Abū 'l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī) (Urdu: ابو الاعلىٰ مودودی‎ – alternative spellings of last name Maudoodi, Mawdudi, and Modudi) was a journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a controversial 20th century Islamist thinker in British India, and later Pakistan. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of King Faisal International Award for his services 1979. He was also the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist party.

Reviews

[Suhaib Mohammed Azam · Rating 5 out of 5]

A riveting read outlining the duties of Muslims in witnessing the truth and in furthering the truth that Islam proclaims. Maududi further describes where we stand in acting on our responsibilities and makes a case of how our witness infact, is against Islam.

The author aims at enlightening the Muslim collective of their grave injustice to the spread of Islam, and provides solutions to this very grave error.