فکرِ آزاد میں فکرِ ابنِ تیمہ کا حصہ

Ibn eTaimiyya (661-728/1263-1327) is one of the most seminal personalities in the history of Islam. Born in an age which, was characterized by, numbers of distortions and Riots were in Muslim society, he struggled hard to revive Muslim society through inward animation and re-interpretation of its values in the light of a new spirit of ijtihad (interpretation of law) based on direct recourse to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet. He came to be hailed as the mujaddid of his age. His thought influenced not only his contemporaries in the Muslim heartlands but reached far beyond. Emphasis on Hadith studies and rejection of taqlid continued to be considered the only aims of Ibn e Taimiyya's movement until Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958) appeared on the India intellectual scene and looked to Ibn e Taimiyya for inspiration to restore to the Muslims in India the mettle necessary for a struggle against foreign domination. Perhaps no Indian scholar understood the role of Ibn e Taimiyya in the history of Islam with such clarity and conviction as did Maulana Azad. In his struggle against British rule, he drew inspiration from Ibn eTaimiyya who had guided the Muslims of his day when political power had passed out of their hands. Ibn e Taimiyya's influence on Maulana Azad was not conf ined to explicitly religious matters. Azad considered Ibn e Taimiyya's diagnosis of the social and political ills of Muslim society very relevant to the situation prevailing in his day. Anxious to organize the Muslims, he cited Ibn e Taimiyya as his ideal and urged the need for an imam to organize the community. In Tazkirah (تذکرہ), published in 1919, he drew a lively, vibrant picture of Ibn e Taimiyya, focused on the man's sincerity and determination to revive Muslim society regardless of the opposition and hardship that he had to face. Maulana Azad's bold acceptance of Ibn e Taimiyya's ideological position dispelled many misunderstandings about Ibn Taimiyya and a new phase began in the intellectual history of Muslim India characterized by close study and numerous translations of his works in Urdu. Azad himself translated al-Wasiyat ul-Kubra (الوصیتہ الکبریٰ) into Urdu, and, under his influence, Ghulam Rasul Mehr, and 'Abd al-Razzaq Malihabadi became ardent admirers of Ibn Taimiyya and propagated his views through their writings