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“A system of virtuous equality.... a political system of security and justice
....an economic system of justice and provision .... a spiritual system of meditative
thinking and inner reflection, and remembering Allah .... and a social system
of brotherhood"
Undoubtedly, the zenith of Maulana Noorani's Islamic political leadership and statesmanship was his ability to overlook the differences which have kept the ummah divided, to the benefit of non-Muslim powers. Due to his impeccable style of leadership, he successfully united five of the major religious parties in Pakistan to forge the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). Under this union, the MMA was able to gain 65 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan to become the official opposition party in Oct. 2002, a feat which stunned both Muslim and non-Muslim critics. Upon this event Maulana Noorani reminded Muslims that:
“Islam becomes an unstoppable force when Muslims unite. No 'super-power' will be
able to defeat it, if we can only understand this fundamental principle."
As a statesman Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui counseled leaders both Arabs and non-Arabs to foster greater co-operation between Muslim countries. He worked tirelessly to connect Muslim leaders, visionaries and scientists in order to facilitate the expansion of Islamically motivated ventures at both the national and global levels. The greatest challenge, he believed, was to harness the resources of Muslim nations to benefit Muslims worldwide. Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui held on the principle of democracy as the process for
Islamic nationhood. In so far that he was willing to pay a personal price for this. He was jailed several times by a number of political dictators for his outspoken stance against illegitimate dictatorship regimes in Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world. He believed, like the early Muslims who elected the first caliph Syedinna Abu Bakr Siddiqui RA by a democratic process, Muslims today should have similar rights to elect their political representatives.
As a statesman, Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui excelled in the field of diplomacy in bringing about world peace. In 1988 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, with other world leaders, he successfully brokered a peace pact to help end the bloody Iran-Iraq war which took the lives of over 1,000,000 Muslims.
In terms of Islamic spirituality, Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui received khilafat of the Qadiriyya and Chistiyya sufi orders from his father Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA. He also received ijaza from other tariqah including Naqshbandiyya, Shadhiliyya, Soharwardiyy and Rifa'i. Through his travels worldwide for over fifty-five years he initiated more than 600,000 murids (spiritual disciples) to Tariqat-ul-Qadiriyya. Amongst them we find today political leaders, Muslim scholars, professionals, and hundreds of thousand ordinary Muslims whose practice of Islam is based on following the commands of Allah Subhanahu wa Tala through the endearing
love and attachment to Syed-ul-Alameen Muhammad-ur-Rasoolulaah Salalaahu 'alahi wa Sallam, khulafa Rashideed, Syedinna Ghawth-al-'Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani RA and the awliya (pious saints of Islam). 
In 1988 Qaid-e-Ahl Sunna Hazrat Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui successfully brokered a deal which eventually ended the long and protracted Iran-Iraq war in which almost 1,000,000 Muslim lives were lost.
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