"At the end of his long and cantankerous life the maulana had gone against all his high principles. He had gone to a Boston hospital to look for health; he had at the very end entrusted himself to the skill and science of the civilization he had tried to shield his followers from. He had sought, as someone said to me (not all Pakistanis are fundamentalists), to reap where he had not wanted his people to sow. Of the maulana it might be said that he had gone to his well-deserved place in heaven by way of Boston; and that he went at least part of the way by ."
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V.S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981), p. 168.
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Abul A'la Maududi
Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti (Urdu: Ų§ŲØŁ Ų§ŁŲ§Ų¹ŁŪ Ł ŁŲÆŁŲÆŪ; September 25, 1903 ā September 22, 1979), also known as Abul A'la Maududi, was a journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher. He was the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the first recipient of the King Faisal International Award from Saudi Arabia. He has been the second person in history whose absentee funeral was observed in the Kaaba.
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