THE CALL

2. HAZRATJI ~ 76 ~ once. It was not because he had no money, but because he saved his money to buy books on the life of the Prophet Mohammad. Maulana Inamul Hasan, a friend and classfellow of the Maulana recounts how both of them had decided to keep awake at night to study. “It was arranged that one night the Maulana would keep awake for the first half of the night while I slept, and then, at midnight, he would waken me and give me a cup of tea so that I could study during the latter half of the night. Then he would go to sleep. The next day I did vice versa. One night the Maulana studied in the first half of the night and the second night I studied in the first half of the night, thus giving ourselves some variety. “In his later life at Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin, he had a busy schedule, but he had fixed a period of time every day to read and write. An incident recounted by a religious scholar from Nadwa, Lucknow underscores this aspect of the Maulana. It seems that at a gathering addressed by the late Maulana Yousuf, there was pindrop silence for his words of wisdom and inspiration. Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, a great religious scholar, who was also present on this occasion,