Correspondence with Maulana Sadruddin Islahi

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE No reply was received from Maulana Sadruddin to this letter. I then expressed my disappointment in a letter to Mr. Jalaluddin Ansar (resident of Rampur). In response, I received a letter from Mr. Ansar dated December 11, 1962, which contained the following words: “I conveyed your message to Maulana Sadruddin. He replied that he did not consider your previous letter to require a response, which is why he did not reply. However, he mentioned that he had requested two items from you, which you did not send.” The two items in question were the letter from Maulana Abul Lais Nadwi to Maulana Sadruddin and my detailed commentary on Maulana Sadruddin’s response. I did not send the latter because Maulana Sadruddin was unwilling to agree to my condition that he would provide his feedback on it after reviewing it. After this response, I understood that Maulana Sadruddin was unwilling to comment further on my commentary. In other words, the phase of mutual understanding had ended, and I had to decide for myself what course of action to take. I spent a few days reflecting on this issue and ultimately concluded that I would likely have to publish my