Second Phase: Informal Conversation

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE • You are deeply affected by a sense of mistrust toward Maulana Maududi and the entire Jamaate-Islami, and you have poured onto paper the suspicions that were locked in your mind. Do you believe you will not be held accountable for this? Many of your objections and suspicions are merely products of your assumptions, which have no basis in reality. • The tone you have adopted in your writing is extremely aggressive, resembling the expressions of a staunch opponent of the Jamaat. In this, you have even left behind Maulana Amin Ahsan, to the extent that you have accused (Maulana Maududi) of distorting the religion. • My advice is to change this aggressive tone; otherwise, your writing will meet the same fate as that of Maulana Amin Ahsan’s works. A senior figure, a member of the Shura Council—the higher consultative body—reflected at length after reading this work. Part of what he said was: ‘I do not disagree with it much, but neither am I fully satisfied. The truth is, I have not given such matters much thought. Therefore, it is difficult for me to form any definite opinion about it.’” However, he fully agreed with the chapter on “Consequences,” noting that if my analysis of the ideology is correct, then these outcomes are