Abul Ala Mawdudi

Abul Ala Mawdudi (1903-1979) was a Pakistani Islamic leader. He founded a fundamentalist Islamic group in Pakistan called Djamaliti Islami.

Wisdom & Quotes

• In the so-called Western secular democracy... a divorce has been effected between politics and religion, and as a result of this secularisation, the society and particularly its politically active elements have ceased to attach much or any importance to morality or ethics.

- Islamic Law and Constitution

• No person, class or group, not even the entire population of the state as a whole, can lay claim to sovereignty. God alone is the real sovereign; all others are merely his subjects.

- Ibid.

Ella Baker