PHILOSOPHY OF DAWAH IN ISLAM: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MAULANA WAHEED U DIN AND JAVED AHMED GHAMIDI’S THOUGHTS

Abstract

This research paper describes the comparative analysis of two different schools of thought of Maulana Waheed ud din Khan and Javed Ahmed Ghamidi. Both are contemporary renowned scholars. Their period of life and the present is famous for fanaticism, extremism, Jehad (Qitaal), and old Islamic traditional and conventional thoughts in the Muslim world. An all-around decline of rationalism in our Islamic religious thoughts is visible which has so-far unpleasant consequences nationally and globally being an ummah. In such a suffering state of affairs, both scholars appeared as reconstructionists, progressives, and reformists in religious thoughts. Over decades of detailed research on the Quran and Hadith, both Scholars widely wrote on different socio-political and moral issues addressed by Islam in the present life affairs and hereafter. Many books and articles are written giving a counter-narrative against the old rigid conventional narrative of Islamic thoughts and also opening the way for further constructive debate. Both focused on moderation, progress, and justice for the purpose to oust society from the quagmire of social vices. They adopted a rational approach rather than a traditional methodology to have a true understanding of causes and remedies for religious social pathologies. In this line, they imparted the concept of the development of humanism, morality, and interfaith harmony.