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Dearest Brother,<br />
Ass<strong>al</strong>aamu Alaykum. Your kind letter reached me.<br />
It gave me great pleasure to note with what sincerity and deep feeling you express your<br />
thoughts. The type of questions which you posed, are quite frequently put to me.<br />
Gener<strong>al</strong>ly, I reply in a concise manner. This could possibly be as a result of incompetence<br />
but on the other hand it could <strong>al</strong>so be because I am extremely busy.<br />
This time however, because of your sincere intentions and speci<strong>al</strong> relationship with me<br />
(and the importance of your question), I have decided to write the replies in considerable<br />
detail. I advice you to seclude yourself and pursue this letter with close attention. Do no<br />
confine yourself to reading it merely once, but do so repeatedly with thought and<br />
reflection.<br />
Because of the speci<strong>al</strong> relationship that you have with me, I am sure that you will<br />
definitely go through the contents more than once. It is only as a precautionary measure<br />
that I saw fit to appe<strong>al</strong> to you to cut yourself off from feelings of sadness, anger, passion<br />
and prejudice, while reading with an open mind. Should my words make sense to you,<br />
then please accept; otherwise there is no compulsion upon you to do so.<br />
As I understand the contents of your long letter, the gist of it consists of the following<br />
points:<br />
(a) Although Maulana Thanwi and Maulana Madani are both saintly person<strong>al</strong>ities of high<br />
character, how is it that between them there exist such deep differences in (politic<strong>al</strong><br />
thought)? How can there be such deep differences between the saints of Allah?<br />
(b) Who in your opinion is on the right path and with whose views do you find yourself<br />
in agreement?<br />
(c) What should we do? Why is it that you do not side with any of the parties?<br />
(d) Today the Muslims are being crushed, overwhelmed and destroyed. What should they<br />
do?<br />
(e) Selfish person<strong>al</strong> matter play a great role in peoples actions and intentions, and it<br />
seems as if everyone is following his own desires.<br />
(f) We see that the di<strong>gn</strong>ity of the UIema is purposely being destroyed and on every front<br />
we hear them being criticized and abused.<br />
(g) Through the differences of the UIema, the Ummat is suffering great loss.<br />
These points seem to be the gist of your letter. These very same points are continuously<br />
being written and t<strong>al</strong>ked about. For this reason I feel that even though greatly troubled by<br />
the same, I sh<strong>al</strong>l now proceed to answer your queries in some detail. I am not saying that<br />
whatever I sh<strong>al</strong>l write will be the exact truth and the correct replies. What I am in fact<br />
saying is this, that in my humble opinion, I see matters thus: And the Re<strong>al</strong> True<br />
Knowledge is only with Allah (W<strong>al</strong> Ilmu Ind<strong>al</strong>lah).<br />
Al- Eti’da<strong>al</strong> Fi Maraatibur- Rija<strong>al</strong> 7
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