Correspondence with Maulana Jalil Ahsan Nadwi

piece left you quite displeased. However, despite my inquiries, you did not elaborate on the reasons for this displeasure. Then, in the second week of March 1962, I sent another copy of my writing to you at the address of Madrasatul-Islah. Again, you offered no comments, merely returning it with the irrelevant excuse that this was not the “final draft.” Subsequently, on July 21, 1962, I sent the document a third time to you at Chitrapur. Yet, up to this point, I have not received even a single sentence from you regarding the main issue, which I had sought your opinion on so that any errors on my part could be made clear to me. Thus, nine months have passed without a response from you regarding the core issue, yet I am astonished at the persistent effort you’ve shown in your letters to establish that my approach is not the “path of seekers of truth.” You assert that I am “impatient,” mistakenly believe myself a “true believer,” am “eager” to publish my work, am dominated by my own “self,” engage in “political manoeuvring,” have “doubtful intentions,” have “disrespected” you, and suffer from illusions of “high thinking and great knowledge.” Yet, throughout this period, you have written not a single line on the main issue about which I reached out to you, which could have clarified any errors on my part.