Correspondence with Maulana Abu A’la Maududi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE Your articles are being returned to you; you may use them as you see fit. Humbly, Abul Ala Azamgarh – April 20, 1963 Respected Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, Greetings of peace, I received your letter dated March 21. I am surprised that, despite your promise, you declined to respond to my questions. If you were unable to provide a detailed reply, you could have offered a general comment on my concerns. If even that was not feasible, you could have selected a single point from the entire discussion, analysed it, and demonstrated to me how my reasoning is weak and lacks scholarly depth. In my previous letters, I presented all these options to you. Yet rather than choosing any of these approaches, you directed sarcastic remarks toward me. If you had words for sarcasm, you certainly could have had words for a response, but you chose the former and left the latter. I must say that by doing so, you have chosen a very precarious path for yourself. First, when a person approaches you with his thoughts, and you are aware of the flaws in his reasoning, yet you do not offer a