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Israr Ahmed
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| Muslim Scholar Modern era |
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Founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami
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Israr Ahmad |
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Birth |
April 26, 1932 |
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School/tradition |
Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jama’at |
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Main interests |
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Notable ideas |
Theo-Cracy and Modern Islamic State |
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Influences |
Muhammad Allama Iqbal, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Amin Ahsan Islahi and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan |
Israr Ahmed (Urdu: اسرار احمد) is a well-known Muslim religious figure in Pakistan, India, the Middle East, and North America. He is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an off-shoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. He was born on April 26, 1932 in Hisar District (a district of East Punjab, now part of Haryana) in India. He currently has a daily show on Peace TV, which is a 24/7 Islamic channel that is being broadcasted to many countries of the globe.
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His thought has been influenced by Muhammad Iqbal, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Amin Ahsan Islahi, Farahi, Rafi-ud-Din, Abul Kalam Azad, Shabbir Ahmed Usmani, and Mahmood ul-Hasan and he has himself affirmed that he has synthesized his vision of Islam from these diverse sources. He has also repeatedly acknowledged the deep influence of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, the 18th c Indian Islamic visionary who was at once a spiritual leader, a freedom warrior, a jurist and a prolific scholar. He was formerly a part of Jamaat-e-Islami but he left the party to spearhead a separate organization. On numerous occasions he has said that he realized early enough that establishing an Islamic politico-socio-economic system in a country was a revolutionary process and unlikey to materialize through parliamentary politics of give-and-take.
Dr. Israr Ahmad first appeared on Pakistan Television in 1978 in a program called Al-Kitab; this was followed by other programs, known as Alif Lam Meem, Rasool-e-Kamil, Umm-ul-Kitab and the most popular of all religious programs in the history of Pakistan Television, the Al-Huda, which made him a household name throughout the country. Although he did not like to receive it personally, Dr. Israr Ahmad was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1981. He has to his credit over 60 Urdu books on topics related to Islam and Pakistan, 9 of which have been translated into English and other languages.
He graduated from King Edward Medical College (Lahore) in 1954 and later received his Master's degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi in 1965. He came under the influence of Abul Ala Maududi as a young student, worked briefly for Muslim Student's Federation in the Independence Movement and, following the creation of Pakistan in 1947, for the Islami Jami`yat-e-Talaba and then for the Jama`at-e-Islami. Ahmed resigned from the Jama`at in April 1957 because of its involvement in the electoral politics, which he believed was irreconcilable with the revolutionary methodology adopted by the Jama'at in the pre-1947 period.
The essence of what we call the “Islamic revolutionary thought” consists of the idea that it is not enough to practice Islam in one's individual life but that the teachings of the Qur'an and those of the Sunnah of Muhammad must also be implemented in their totality in the social, cultural, juristic, political, and the economic spheres of life. The credit for reviving this dynamic concept of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, after centuries of neglect and dormancy, goes to Allama Muhammad Iqbal. The first attempt towards the actualization of this concept was made by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad through his short-lived party, the Hizbullah. Another attempt was made by Maulana Sayyid Abul A`la Maududi through his Jama`at-e-Islami; however, the decision by the Jama`at after the creation of Pakistan to take part in the electoral process instead of continuing the original revolutionary methodology gradually resulted in its degeneration from a pure Islamic revolutionary party to a mere political one. When Jama’t-e-Islami entered in the electoral process in 1956, a group of individuals including Dr. Israr Ahmed resigned on account of their disagreement with the leadership of the Jama‘at on significant policy matters. They came together and tried unsuccessfully to form an organized group that was expected to fulfill the vacuum created by the post-1947 change in the direction and course of Jama‘at-e-Islami. A resolution was passed which subsequently became the Mission Statement of Tanzeem-e-Islami. While continuing his Quranic lectures, Dr. Israr kept waiting for his former colleagues to initiate efforts of Islamic renaissance through the revolutionary process. However upon realizing that nobody was coming forward to shoulder this responsibility, he decided to step-on for this effort and call people to make a disciplined organization and he therefore laid the foundation of Tanzeem-e-Islami.
Dr. Israr Ahmed relinquished the leadership of Tanzeem-e-Islami in October, 2002 on grounds of bad health and Hafiz Aakif Saeed is the present Ameer of the Tanzeem to whom all rufaqaa of Tanzeem renewed their pledge of Baiyah.
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- Meesaq (Pact), monthly magazine
- Hikmat-e-Quran (Wisdom of Quran), monthly magazine
