From: hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Re. Maudoodi and Minority relations: Who is right and wrong?
Date: 12 Apr 1992 14:10:50 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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In article <1992Apr11.020425.26587@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
1: >>	The question in front of Maudoodi was what will be your
   >>	treatment of minorities in `M' if `N' is persecuting the
   >>	Muslims and treating the Muslims as  ASHOOTS & MALEESHS.
   >>

2: >>	His answer was, whatever the treatment of Muslims in `N',
   >>	even if  they are treated as ASHOOTS & MALEESHS, we can not
   >>	and will not sacrifice our "principles" and start
   >>	persecuting the minorities in `M'!!!!!!!!


>Well Maudoodi faced another question. Will you please tell what's his
>answer, taking into consideration his whole philosophy.
>
>Question: Will you accept muslims being treated in N as the others were being
>treated in M?
>If the answer is no: Maudoodi is a hypocryte;
>If the answer is yes: then what arguement do you have on the Israel's current
>treatment of Arab citizens (if you have any)
>>
>Arindam
>

Thank you Arindam. I like your style of asking directly what ever
is on one's mind. Instead of Mr. Arshad Husain's hyperbolic
way of quoting out of context, and making the readers draw
incorrect conclusions by feeding them half-truths.

If you think a little more closely on 1 and 2 above, you will see
all the answers you are looking for.

The only possible ambiguity is the word "principles" (in quotes
in the answer 2 above). By "principles", Maudoodi meant whatever
is obtained through Quran and Sunnah.

Maudoodi very clearly explains the whole thing in "Rassail Massail-I",
"Tarjumanul Quran"-1944, and "Islami riyasat" 1967:

You see we, Muslims are responsible for our own actions. We
are not responsible for other's actions. Everyone is
responsible for one's own actions. Because
we are Muslims, our actions must subscribe to Quran and Sunnah.
Quran and Sunnah explicitly tells us what the "treatment of
minorities" in an Islamic State `M' should be. So, based
on these principles, we the Muslims, will treat our minorities
in `M', the way Quran and Sunnah has told us.

What a non-Muslim state (Israel or any other) does with their
"minorities" is another issue. Just because we fear that
a non-Muslim country `N' will persecute Muslim minority,
is  never going to dissuade us, the Muslims, from treating our 
minorities according to Quran and Sunnah. However, if
'N` does persecute its minorities, then its stature in the
world will decrease and people will come to abhor them
like the regimes of Saddam, Hitler and Changez Khan.
Eventually, their regimes will become only chapters
of history.

We are confident that world will soon realize who is more
just, balanced and safeguarder of human rights. If we are
found to be lacking in justice and fairplay, then obviously,
in time, our ideology will be defeated and we will be left
with no state. If however, other states (Israel, USA or any
other) are found to be lacking in justice and fair play,
then the whole world will soon realize who is more just and
who must be followed. They will follow us and we will ultimately
prevail. In this world and in the hereafter it is always
the good that prevails over evil. Eventually, we will see
evil driven away and good prevailing.