Correspondence with Maulana Abul Lais Islahi Nadwi

scholars, “this command to establish the religion also fully and completely includes the detailed injunctions of the Shariah.” 4. Regarding the verse of izhar-e-deen (manifesting the religion), my position is that most commentators interpret the subject (fa‘il) of li-yuzhirahu as referring to God. Furthermore, there are other Quranic verses that indicate this verse describes a plan or decision of God—one that He fulfilled through the Messenger. Therefore, this verse cannot be used to derive the mission of the Messenger, which, as a human being, he was obliged to carry out, and that later generations are required to follow after the finality of Prophethood. The author has refuted my view and provided some arguments for his position. However, what is surprising is that he later contradicts his own statement, saying: Granted that in the verse of izhar-e-deen, the manifestation of the religion has not been explicitly declared to be the Messenger’s mission. I wish that, after making this admission, the author had refrained from trying to prove from this verse that the Messenger’s official mission was izhar-e-deen. For an argument that has been conceded to be “not explicit” cannot be enough to establish an issue as important as that of a prophetic mission. In the sentence above, Maulana Sadruddin Sahib