Correspondence with Maulana Abul Lais Islahi Nadwi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE is incorrect and provides specific arguments for this claim, then you should raise questions about that claim and its evidence. Instead, if you begin asking isolated questions without any preamble—such as, “Tell me, what is the antecedent of wali’alam in such-and-such verse?” or “What is the referent of dhalika in such-andsuch verse?”—then these questions appear random and unrelated to the main issue. Maulana Jalil Ahsan’s questionnaires were full of such questions. You are welcome to review them whenever you like. Regarding my complaints about you, they are as follows: I feel strongly that, in this discussion, you have not demonstrated genuine righteousness and pursuit of truth. Instead, it seems like you see this as just a matter of responding to or dismissing an objection. If the situation were such that you had convincing answers to the questions I raised, and after careful study and consideration, you were completely sure that I was wrong, then such an approach might be appropriate. However, according to your own admission, this is not the case. Whenever I asked for your opinion on these issues, your response was always that “I have not had the time to sufficiently prepare to give an opinion on this, nor do my current commitments allow me to do so.”