The paper presents an overview of Syed Abul Aa'la Maudoodi's philosophical thoughts and its applications to educational process. Syed Abul Aa'la Maudoodi was a great thinker of Islam and a famous religious of the world. He gave logics in a philosophical style and proved that Islam is an absolute system of life. In his tafsir (Quranic interpretation) Tafhim'ul Quran he introduce the four interrelated concepts. He believed essential to understand Quran: Ilah (divine), Rab (Lord), Ibadah (worship) and Din (religion). Fundamental philosophical thoughts rooted in Islam that (i) ultimate reality is Allah (swt); (ii) ultimate source of knowledge is revelation (wahi); (iii) every person is a vicegerent of Allah (swt) and he is responsible for his responsibilities infront of Allah (swt). As the paper aimed to provide only some glimpse of Maudoodi's educational thought in an outline form it warrants a comprehensive and obtained study on the reconstruction of educational thoughts in the context of Maudoodi's philosophy.