Correspondence with Maulana Abu A’la Maududi

responsibility for its publication no longer rests on me but on Maulana Maududi. Appendix Maulana Maududi’s letter dated March 21, 1963, clearly showed that he was no longer eager to reply to me. In that letter, he simply stated: “I offer you my final apology in this matter, and I hope you will not waste your time or mine in any further correspondence.” Therefore, my only remaining option was to compile my writing into a book and proceed with its publication. However, I also felt it was necessary to share my saddened feelings with Maulana, so I sent him a letter dated April 20, 1963. I assumed that Maulana would not want to “waste” his time replying to this letter. Yet, two months later, I received another letter from Maulana Maududi on June 21, revealing an additional matter. Since the printing plates had already been prepared by that time,2 this letter could not be included in the original sequence. However, without this letter, the story would be incomplete, so it is included here separately in an appendix. 2. This refers to the time when the first edition of the book was published, in 1963.