Correspondence with Maulana Abu A’la Maududi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE With Maulana Maududi’s letter dated March 21, 1963, the correspondence I started last year through Shams Peerzada during Hajj, with Maulana’s promise of a reply, has now ended with his refusal to answer after his return from Hajj the following year. Despite verbal and written promises, Maulana never responded to my criticisms of his views. The reasons he listed in his letters are as follows: 1. Your writing has many objections, and with my current commitments, it’s very hard for me to read it and give a detailed response. 2. Your study has taken you in a direction completely opposite to where my study has led me, so it’s pointless for us to argue. 3. Your understanding is lacking, and to make matters worse, you consider yourself to be at a very high level. My difficulty is that I am not used to addressing someone who lacks knowledge yet thinks highly of himself. 4. You’ve passed the point where trying to explain things to you would help. Therefore, no response will be given. However, if you publish your book, a rebuttal will be issued to protect the public from the misconceptions you’ve presented. 5. Because your writing is polemical in nature, you should not expect me to engage in a back-and-