Abul Ala Maududi - Timeline

Timeline

• 1903 – Born in Aurangabad, Hyderabad Deccan, India
• 1918 – Started career as journalist in Bijnore newspaper
• 1920 – Appointed as editor of the daily Taj, Jabalpur
• 1921 – Learned Arabic from Maulana Abdul Salam Niazi in Delhi
• 1921 – Appointed as editor daily Muslim
• 1926 – Took the Sanad of Uloom e Aqaliya wa Naqalia from Darul Uloom Fatehpuri, Delhi
• 1928 – Took the Sanad in Jamay Al-Tirmidhi and Muatta Imam Malik Form same Teacher
• 1925 – Appointed as editor Al-jameeah, New Delhi
• 1927 – Wrote Al- Jihad fil Islam
• 1930 – Wrote and published the famous booklet Al- Jihad fil Islam
• 1933 – Started Tarjuman-ul-Qur'an from Hyderabad (India)
• 1937 – Aged 34, introduced to South Asia's premier Muslim poet-philosopher, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, by Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan at Lahore
• 1938 – Aged 35, moved to Pathankot from Hyderabad Deccan and joined the Dar ul Islam Trust Institute, which was established in 1936 by Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan on the advice of Allama Muhammad Iqbal for which Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan donated 66 acres (270,000 m2) of land from his vast 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) estate in Jamalpur, 5 km west of Pathankot
• 1941 – Founded Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at Lahore, appointed as Amir
• 1942 – Jamaat's headquarters moved to Pathankot
• 1942 – Started writing a commentary of the Qur'an called Tafhim-ul-Quran
• 1947 – Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan headquarters moved to Lahore (Ichhra)
• 1948 – Campaign for Islamic constitution and government
• 1948 – Thrown in jail by the government for fatwa on jihad in Kashmir
• 1949 – Government accepted Jamaat's resolution for Islamic constitution
• 1950 – Released from jail
• 1953 – Sentenced to death for his historical part in the agitation against Ahmadiyah to write a booklet Qadiani Problem. He was sentenced to death by a military court, but it was never carried out;
• 1953 – Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment and later canceled.
• 1958 – Jamaat-e-Islami banned by Martial Law Administrator Field Martial Ayub Khan
• 1964 – Sentenced to jail
• 1964 – Released from jail
• 1971 – Ordered his followers to fight to save United Pakistan.
• 1972 – Completed Tafhim-ul-Quran
• 1972 – Resigned as Ameer-e-Jamaat
• 1978 – Published his last book "Seerat-e-Sarwar-e-Aalam" in two volumes.
• 1979 – Departed to United States for medical treatment
• 1979 – Died in United States
• 1979 – Buried in Ichhra, Lahore