Israr Ahmed (Urdu: احمد اسرار ڈاکٹر ;26 April 1932 – 14 April 2010; MA, MBBS) was a Pakistani Islamic theologian, philosopher, and Islamic scholar who was followed particularly in South Asia as well as by South Asian Muslims in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.
He was the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami, an offshoot of the rightist Jamaate-Islami. Ahmed wrote and published 60 books on different aspects of Islam and religion, nine of which were translated into English.

Israr Ahmed was born in Hisar, a province of East Punjab of British Indian  Empire, on 26 April 1932. His father was a civil servant in the British Government who relocated his family from Hisar to Montgomery, now Sahiwal, Punjab Province of Pakistan.

After graduating from a local high school, Ahmed moved to Lahore to attend the King Edward Medical University in 1950. He received his MBBS degree from King Edward Medical University in 1954 and began practising medicine. In addition, he obtained his Masters in Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi in 1965.
In 1950, he joined Jamaat-e-Islami led by Abul Ala Maududi, but left the party when the latter opted for participating in electoral politics in 1957. Ahmed resigned from the Jamaat-e-Islami in April 1957 because of its involvement in national politics, which he believed was irreconcilable with the revolutionary methodology adopted by the Jama’at in the pre-1947 period. His interest in Islam and philosophy grew further and he subsequently moved to Karachi, Sindh Province in the 1960s. where he enrolled in Karachi University.

Israr Ahmed died of cardiac arrest at his home in Lahore on the morning of 14 April 2010 at age 78. He had given up the leadership of Tanzeem-i-Islami in 2002 due to poor health. According to his son, his health deteriorated at around 1:30 am with pain in the back. He was a long time heart patient. His survivors included a wife, four sons and five daughters.

SocialMedia Links of Preacher

One major Pakistani English-language newspaper commented after his death, “Founder of several organisations like Anjuman-i-Khuddamul Quran, Tanzeem-i-Islami and Tehrik-i-Khilafat, he had followers in Pakistan, India and Gulf countries, especially in Saudi Arabia. He spent almost four decades in trying to reawaken interest in Quran-based Islamic philosophy.”

Views
Governance

Ahmad opposed modern democracy and the prevalent electoral system, arguing that in a true Islamic state the ruler has the power to overturn the majority decisions of an elected assembly.

Abul Ala Maududi

While Israr Ahmad “considers himself a product” of the teachings of “comprehensive and holistic concept of the Islamic obligations” of Abul Ala Maududi, he opposed Jamaat-e-Islami’s entry into “the arena of power politics”. Instead he believed what was needed was a “revolutionary methodology” pursued by a “disciplined organization”.

Caliphate

While many, if not all, Sunni activists seek a return of the Caliphate, an “important aspect of Ahmad’s ideology” was his belief that “the foundations for the caliphate” should not be in Hijaz, Baghdad or other more traditional sites, but in Pakistan, where (he believed) “the spiritual nerve center of the Islamic intellectual movement had shifted”.

Recent Bayans of Preacher

Hizb ut-Tahrir

Both Hizb ut-Tahrir and Tanzeem-e-Islami share a belief in the revival of the Caliphate as a means of implementing Islam in all spheres of life, according to Tanzeem-e-Islami’s FAQ. However, Tanzeem-e-Islami seeks a popular Islamic revival which will then lead to political revolution rather than involvement in electoral politics, armed struggle, coup d’état to establish a caliphate. Tanzeem-e-Islami believes that once the Islamic revolution has taken place, the election of the Khalifah would be done on the basis of electoral votes. Tanzeem-e-Islami emphasises that iman (faith) among Muslims must be revived in “a significant portion of the Muslim society” before there can be an Islamic revival.

Danger of Jews

Main articles: 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan, 2011 India-Pakistan border shooting, and 2008 Mumbai attacks
Ahmad often expounded “conspiracy theories” about how “Jews and Israel” were attempting “to destabilize Pakistani society”. He would include comments on the “Jew World Order”, descriptions of “Jews as ‘cursed people’ or ‘cursed race’ who had conspired against Muslims for centuries”, and were ‘followers of Satan, intent on destroying Islam’.

Danger of foreign powers

Ahmad opposed the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency and in a televised press conference called for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. from both the presidency and chief of army staff.

While on television, Ahmad predicted and warned the nation that, “If the situation worsens, the NATO forces are waiting on the western front to move into Pakistan and may deprive the country of its nuclear assets while on the eastern front, India is ready to stage an action replay of Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 and has alerted its armed forces to intervene in to check threats to peace in the region.”

Other views

Asia Times reports that in September 1995 Ahmad told the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America: “The process of the revival of Islam in different parts of the world is real. A final showdown between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world, which has been captured by the Jews, would soon take place. The Gulf War was just a rehearsal for the coming conflict.” He appealed to the Muslims of the world, including those in the US, to prepare themselves for the coming conflict.

After the Demolition of the Babri Masjid in India, Israr criticised the vengeful demolition of Hindu temples in Pakistan, calling them unislamic and making the perpetrators the same as Hindu extremists in India.