The Error of Political Islam

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE Nadwi, to seek their opinions on it. Maulana Maududi’s importance lies in the fact that he is the original thinker behind the ideology upon which Jamaat-e-Islami was founded. Maulana Jalil Ahsan Nadwi, on the other hand, holds a significant position within the Jamaat due to his extensive life dedication to studying the Quran. Even today, as a teacher of the Quran, he devotes his best hours to this noble book, making his opinion on the matter highly valuable. I will now present the accounts of each of these three individuals separately. Correspondence with Maulana Sadruddin Islahi In this matter, Maulana Sadruddin Islahi was the first person appointed specifically by the Amir and the entire Shura Council to prepare a response to my writing. He was instructed that, if necessary, he should take the full four months to write a comprehensive and detailed response. Accordingly, on the morning of April 22, 1962, I handed over a copy of my work to Maulana Sadruddin in Rampur. On July 29, 1962, at eleven o’clock, I was sitting in the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s central library in Rampur, engrossed in my study, when I heard a voice from behind: “Here is your trust.” I looked back and saw Mr. Afzal Hussain Khan (1918–1990), the director of