Islam is the only Deen accepted to and revealed by Almighty Allah. It is the universal truth and the Deen of all prophets from Adam to the last messenger Mohammad (PBUH ), same in the content and diverse in Sharia with respect to the demands of various ages and as per the needs of the people of the time. Sharia in its development reached to the culmination in the era of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Deen as a whole flourished to its full bloom including Sharia. Since then it was practiced in the large part of the world and has left behind a great civilization of its kind.

Throughout its magnificent past Deen Islam however underwent a certain changes in terms of its interpretations and jurisprudence. In jurisprudence the four Imams; Imam Abu Hanifa,Imam shafi,Imam Malik and lmam Ahmed bin Hanmbal are known and largely followed in the whole Muslim World. Parallel to it the Muslim populace is by and large influenced and inspired by the four towering figures of thought considered as the four Imams of Islamic thought who interpreted deen as a whole and attracted millions of adherents all over the Muslim world.
The first lmam of this kind is Imam Ghazzali known as Hujjat ul Islam who made the mystical interpretation (Sufi Tabeer) of Deen and influenced the majority of Muslims of his time. His followers are found even in present times. Quite contrary to this mystical interpretation the second great thinker Imam Ibn e Taymiyyah arrived with an extremely opposite interpretation adhering to the Quran, Sunnah and the tradition of Sahaba. This interpretation can be appropriately named as Salafi interpretation (Salafi Tabeer).It also inspired and mobilized many muslims to establish governments on this thought, the type of which we still witness in Saudi Arabia. In the end of the 17th century another great soul Shah Waliullah Dehlvi appeared on the scene from the subcontinent and endorsed both the extreme ideologies (Sufi and Salafi) as right and brought them under a wonderful collaboration . He succeeded well to put the conflict on hold. In the modern era in the 20th century the man of phenomenal brilliance Syed Abul Ala Moududi emerged from the same continent who inspired and enthused millions of Muslims especially young and intellectual minds with his unique interpretation which some critics have named as political interpretation of Deen.
The journey of knowledge can never be stopped. Never can be put a halt to the man's unconquered quest to unravel the truth. The process of thesis and antithesis has always been the guaranteed way to reach the conclusions. In world sciences the constructions are deconstructed to reconstruct anew. We have known that the entire superstructure of Platonic sciences was demolished by Aristotle and the latter's by Newton and then Newton's by Einstein to keep the evolution of science going.
Since the chapter of further prophet hood has been closed forever, the options for time to time fresh understandings and reinterpretations of Deen, if fairly availed, are genuinely appreciated and make sense.
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a well-known Islamic scholar, exegete, a leading religious figure in the public and private media, and educator. He studied Philosophy and English Literature at Govt. College Lahore and Islamic disciples from various scholars throughout his early years, was associated with, and joined Mawlana Mawdudi's Jamaat-e-Islami; was influenced by the works of Imam Hamiduddin Farahi, and from 1973 studied under the tutelage of Amin Ahsan Islahi.
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, a thinker and exegete is presently on the mission to reinterpret Deen as per his understandings. He also has produced the counter narrative of religion in response to the traditional narratives.
The paradigm shift Javed Ahmad Ghamidi has made in interpreting Deen is quite unprecedented that invited strong opposition and objections from the critics and the Muslim scholars all over.
But what makes the big difference is that in Ghamidi's paradigm the factors or constituents of Deen in terms of their significance and centrality are displaced and given the new placement as per his own thought and understandings. Though it is not new and every thinker has done it,
but he himself criticizes the former thinkers while terming them traditional that they have made this placement inappropriate and illogical.
In the framework of Syed Moududi, the chief purpose of sending the prophets towards people is to establish deen with all its constituents or for implementation of Sharia to present and complete hujjat for the people of the world. He explained that Deen as an organic whole certifies peace, prosperity, harmony and all kinds of blessings in this world and guarantees salvation in the hereafter. For this purpose he emphasized that Deen must have the sovereignty to manifest itself in full sense as it is the complete code of life. So it becomes the foremost obligation of Muslims to establish Deen as a sovereign power in order to live in its blessed system.
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi on the other hand declares that there is no obligation on Muslims to establish Deen and make it a sovereign power. He clarifies that the messengers have not been sent for this purpose at all. Almighty selects His messengers so that reward and punishment can be meted out in this world through them before the actual Day of Judgment. It becomes a
miniature rehearsal of what is going to take place on that Day. These messengers are told that if the people honor their covenant with God, they will be rewarded in this very world and if they do not do so, they will be punished in this very world. The result is that the very existence of these messengers becomes a sign of God, and it is as if their people can observe God walking on earth with these messengers and delivering His verdicts. On the basis of the signs of truth that they have directly. To Be Continued)

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