Correspondence with Maulana Abul Lais Islahi Nadwi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE the exchange of letters from there. Let’s see what he replies. Once I receive your response, I will then write to Waheed Sahib accordingly. (Excerpt from letter dated August 28, 1962) I cannot express how deeply painful your letter has been for me. This letter has shattered all the positive assumptions I had maintained about you despite our ideological differences. (Maulana Syed Jalaluddin) Ansar Sahib and other colleagues with whom I shared a close connection in Rampur can testify to my high regard for you. However, I regret that your writing has confirmed all those things that I had long been hearing, but which my heart was unwilling to believe. It is astonishing that during this lengthy debate period, you did not demonstrate the openness or goodwill to try to convince me, either verbally or in writing. Even when I reminded you of the promise you made in your letter dated January 29, 1962—where you had said, “If you want to know my personal opinion, then after reading your writing, I will share it freely”— you remained silent. Despite my repeated requests for your commentary on the responses I wrote to Sadruddin Sahib’s writings, where I presented clear and undeniable truths, you offered no remarks. Instead, you directed Jalil Ahsan Sahib to begin “educating” me. And yet, you wrote those words about me that appear