Author of 138 original works; he has influenced the contemporary Islamic scene as a writer, a speaker, a scholar, a religious thinker, a social reformer, a political leader, and lately as elderly statesman. He made his impact on the intellectual life of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent in 1930 when at the early age of twenty four he published his voluminous scholarly work Al-Jihad fi al-Islam (Jihad in Islam), a work distinguished by erudite scholarship and research by remarkable intellectual integrity and moral courage, and a refreshing vision of the Ummah playing its constructive role in rebuilding the world community on founda tions of Godliness and justice.
The work was remarkable for its range of conception: the author had placed Jihad in the total context of the Islamic law of nations, especially of war and peace, and had compared the Islamic laws of war and peace with those found in other religious and legal systems of the world, both of the past and present.
