Correspondence with Maulana Jalil Ahsan Nadwi

(e.g., shahida fulan ‘ala fulan bihaqq, meaning “so-andso testified for so-and-so with truth,” Lisan al-Arab). Accepting this general meaning of shuhada ‘ala, the translations provided by Urdu translators are not subject to the objection you mentioned in your letter. Yours sincerely, Wahiduddin After this, I received Maulana’s second questionnaire. This questionnaire, too, consisted merely of questions, without any consideration given to my prior request to clarify the relevance of the questions to the primary issue. A copy of the questionnaire is as follows: Dear Brother! Peace and Blessings, I received your letter dated September 9 on the 17th. In my opinion, you did not address my letter of September 6 fairly. At the outset, I requested that you share your understanding of verse 25 of Chapter Al-Hadid with me. I then presented my questions and finally noted that these questions were posed for your convenience so you could elaborate clearly on their meaning. However, you treated the questions as primary and provided answers to them rather than writing the commentary of the verse. (It’s rather peculiar that the Maulana is merely content with the questions himself