Jamaat-e-Islami and Criticism

Question

I wish to state with complete candour: just as the Raza-Khani group (followers of Ahmad Raza Khan, i.e. Barelvis) opened a front against the ulama of Deoband, defamed them by fabricating slanders against them, and, by cutting and clipping their books and disregarding the context, manufactured expressions of kufr — exactly the same method the ulama of Deoband are now employing against Jamaat-e-Islami. As an example I want to cite here your own article, which you wrote in the monthly “Nizam” (“Order”; Kanpur, vol.

Answer

[ar]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ[/ar] My honoured sir, may your honour increase! As-salamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Your kind letter served as a reminder. In the May 1960 issue of “Nizam” an objection against the Tablighi Jamaat and its reply had been published; the candour with which you expressed your feelings and impressions about it gave me…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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