Maryam Jameelah (RA) [1934-2012]

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#16 [Permalink] Posted on 5th September 2017 20:29

"In Islam, my quest for absolute values was satisfied. In Islam I found all that was true, good and beautiful and that which gives meaning and direction to human life (and death); while in other religions, the Truth is deformed, distorted, restricted and fragmentary. If any one chooses to ask me how I came to know this, I can only reply my personal life experience was sufficient to convince me. My adherence to the Islamic faith is thus a calm, cool but very intense conviction. I have, I believe, always been a Muslim at heart by temperament, even before I knew there was such a thing as Islam. My conversion was mainly a formality, involving no radical change in my heart at all but rather only making official what I had been thinking and yearning for many years."

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#17 [Permalink] Posted on 5th September 2017 20:51

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Besides the 3 books already posted, is there anyweher online we can get the rest of these articles/books?

These writings need to be more publicised, becasue what she was writing and warning against back then has only become more proliferated now due to our own weaknesses.

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#18 [Permalink] Posted on 5th September 2017 21:10

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There are 4 small booklets, on the following blogspot

How I embraced Islam,
Islam and Modern Man.
The Feminist Movement.
The Muslim Mind.

maryam--jameelah.blogspot.co.uk/

The rest you will just have to google the Titles on the list of writings I posted on the previous page. individually.

Unfortunately her name is not as well known as it was a few decades ago. Had she lived she would have been 83 years old, so with passage of time people tend to forget.

Just before she passed away,some American woman wrote a best selling Book about Maryam Jameelah labelling her an extremist.

The English language Pakistani Journalists out of their usual inferiority complex , joined in labelling her an Extremist her subsequent death barley got a mention in the Media.

I went to Islamic Shop some of her books were available, but looked like they had been on display so long that the colour on the covers was wearing away.

In other countries an equivalent writer would have been lauded and received a state funeral.

May Allah accept and grant her the highest of Maqams in Al firdaus ameen.

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#19 [Permalink] Posted on 9th May 2020 01:24

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Bismillah.

For a number of years in my 20's and early 30's it was a practice of mine to read the small book. Called correspondence between Maulana Maudoodi and Maryam Jameelah.

Every Ramadhan it would give me a boost just knowing how Allah guides the hearts and specifically guided the heart of Maryam Jameelah.

Allah instilled in her heart a zeal whilst she was still a teenager and was known as Margaret Marcus to wage a writing campaign to defend the religion with her pen.

I humbly request people to make Dua for her maghfirah in this blessed month.

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#20 [Permalink] Posted on 22nd August 2021 14:28

Islam and Modernism a book containing a series of essays by Maryam Jameelah.

Is available to download in the following link.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&...

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#21 [Permalink] Posted on 16th December 2024 12:43

Who are the Ulema?
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At the present time, a most vicious campaign of propaganda is being waged against the Ulema by a certain group in all Muslim countries. These people fallaciously compare the Ulema in the Muslim world with the priesthood in medieval European Christendom. They preach hatred against them by characterising them as living luxury, exploited their followers and dividing the Muslims into mutually hostile sects all engaged in fratricidal strife. They would have us believe that the Ulema are responsible for all the evils in the Muslim world throughout our history and the acceptance of their authority as the reason for our backwardness. From these premises, they conclude that the only we Muslims can achieve our salvation is to reject all interpretations of Islam given to us by ‘’these dogmatic learned men’’, get rid of the ‘’Mullahs’’ and build and entirely new structure for Islam by ourselves.

Who are the Ulema? Are they priests? Are they a hereditary ruling excluding outsiders? Certainly not! Any Muslim acquires the requisite knowledge in the Arabic language, the Qur’an, Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence can attain the rank of an Alim. But today we are faced with the tragic situation where we find a group of our people with exclusively English-type education, many of whom received their training in Christian missionary schools and colleges, who refuse to acquire any of the Islamic learning foe which they have nothing but contempt, insisting upon their right to reinterpret Islam and law because, they argue, Islam is not the monopoly of nay priest class! If a certain task requires specialised knowledge and training, how can it be properly performed except by those who fulfil the necessary conditions about the Shar’iah, be qualified to exercise Ijtihad?

Far from living in luxury and ease, throughout our history we find the Ulema enduring with patience and steadfastness the most intolerable hardships and tortures. Who inflicted the persecution? Not the Christians. Not the Jews! Not the Hindus! None else but our own rulers bearing Muslim names who wanted no part of Islam! Why did Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi’, Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal suffer the most severe persecution for their refusal to endorse the Mu’tazilte heresy so fashionable among the ruling elite of that time? Why Ibn Hanbal flogged in a manner too cruel even for elephants and breathe his last chained in a dungeon? For what crime was ‘Allamah Ibn Taymiyyah repeatedly locked behind bars by the rulers of his day and die in prison? Why did Jehangir imprison Shaykh Ahmad Sirhndi in the Gwalior Fort because he had refused to prostrate himself before the Emperor?

Who has the power today? Surely not the Ulema! Why do we find that in every Muslim country those Ulema who have the courage to speak out and denounce the un-Islamic practices of modern life, resist secularism, materialism and atheism and who support movements striving for an Islamic revival? Imprisoned and even some times condemned to death? For their steadfastness in upholding the faith against innovation and heresy, they are constantly subjected to all kinds of harassment and representative measures. Where is the theocratic dictatorship of the Mullah’s? If the Ulema had the power to deny the Muslims the blessings of freedom, enlightenment and progress, why have they been compelled to endure all this persecution?

The respect and deviation of the common Muslims for these Ulema are not mere accident or a product of sheer conservatism or Taqlid. Their authority is maintained not by any material power of which they possess none solely rests upon their superior knowledge, wisdom, character, piety and their struggle, sacrifice and suffering for the cause of Islam. Their lives and works are a convincing testimony of the Muslim community that they have made every effort to discover the correct meaning of the Shar’iah and that therefore their interpretations can be relied upon with implicit faith and integrity.

Those who malign the Ulema insisting that we reject all interpretations by ‘these dogmatic learned men’’ in other words are telling us that ‘’dogmatic learned men’’ like Ahlul Bait, the Sahabah, Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Hanifa, Shafi’, Malik, Hanbal, al-Ghazzali, Ibn Taymiyyah, Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, Shah Waliuillah and Sayyid Ahmad Shahid were all wrong in their interpretation of Islam and only today under the domination of Western cultural imperialism have the modernists attained true perspective! What is this plea for a new Islam but to substitute for the Islam of the Qur’an and the Sunnah a counterfeit version manufactured by the Christians missionaries and Orientalists in London and New York?

[Maryam Jameelah – Islam in theory and practice p.113]

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