IMAM MAWDUDI- MURSHID

Syed Abul A'ala Maududi (Urdu: سید ابو الاعلىٰ مودودی - alternative spellings of last name Maudoodi and Modudi) (September 25, 1903(1903-09-25) - September 22, 1979), also known as Molana (Maulana) or Shaikh Syed Abul A'ala Mawdudi, was a Sunni Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a major 20th century Islamist thinker. He was also a prominent political figure in his home country (Pakistan). He was also the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist party.


1903 - Born in Aurangabad, Hyderabad Deccan, India
1918 - Started career as journalist in Bijnore newspaper
1920 - Appointed as editor of the daily Taj, Jabalpur
1921 - Learned Arabic from Maulana Abdul Salam Niazi In Delhi
1925 - Appointed as editor daily Muslim
1926 - Took the Sand of Uloom e Aqaliya wa Naqalia from Darul Uloom Fatehpuri Delhi
1927 - Took the Sanad (certificate) in Hadith,Fiqh and Adab from Maulana Mufti Ashfaq Ur Rahman Kandhalvi
1928 - Took the Sanad in Jamay Al-Tirmidhi and Muatta Imam Malik Form same Teacher
1925 - Appointed as editor Al-jameeah, New Delhi
1927 - Wrote and published Al- Jihad fil Islam
1930 - Wrote and published the famous booklet Deenyat
1932 - Started Tarjuman-ul-Qur'an from Hyderabad (India)
1937 - Aged 34, introduced to South Asia's premier Muslim poet-philosopher, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, by Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan at Lahore
1938 - Aged 35, moved to Pathankot from Hyderabad Deccan and joined the Dar ul Islam Trust Institute, which was established in 1936 by Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan on the advice of Allama Muhammad Iqbal for which Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan donated 66 acres of land from his vast 1,000 acre estate in Jamalpur, 5 km west of Pathankot
1941 - Founded Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at Lahore, appointed as Amir
1942 - Jamaat's headquarters moved to Pathankot
1943 - Started writing a Tafseer of the Qur'an called Tafhim-ul-Quran
1947 - Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Headquarters moved to Lahore (Ichhra)
1948 - Campaign for Islamic constitution and government
1948 - Wrote a booklet Qadiani Problem
1948 - Sentenced to Jail by the Government
1949 - Government accepted Jamaat's resolution for Islamic Constitution
1953 - Sentenced to death for his historical part in the agitation against Ahmadiyah. He was sentenced to death by a military court, but it never carried out;
1953 - Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment and later canceled.
1955 - Released from jail
1958 - Jamaat-e-Islami banned by Martial Law Administrator Field Martial Ayub Khan
1964 - Sentenced to jail
1964 - Released from jail
1971 - Ordered his followers to fight to save United Pakistan along with Pak Army.
1972 - Completed Tafhim-ul-Quran
1972 - Resigned as Ameer-e-Jamaat
1979 - Departed to United States for Medical Treatment
1979 - Died in United States
1979 - Buried in Ichhra, Lahore