Correspondence with Maulana Abul Lais Islahi Nadwi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE in a genuine dialogue on the core issue, I am certainly prepared, insha’Allah, to converse on that. But if there is no willingness on the other person’s part, one cannot forcibly extract a response. Yours sincerely, Wahiduddin Delhi, October 27, 1962 Dear Brother, Assalamu Alaykum, I received your letter. One of the main reasons I wrote such a detailed response was to clarify the original intent of the two phrases that seemed to have caused you distress due to a misunderstanding. I wanted to ensure that any discomfort on your part could be relieved. However, from your reply, it’s not clear how successful I was in this. It seems you might be misinterpreting my entire statement, as you believe that a phrase from this letter contradicts one from the letter I sent to Maulana Sadruddin. Even if such a contradiction exists, it concerns a completely different matter. Therefore, based on this alone, you should not have fully ignored my clarification about these two phrases. If your heart is not open to accepting this, then there is nothing more I can do.