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[quote]Thank you Mr. Usmani for your comments which I value very much and would try to reply ad-seriatim as hereunder: -

1.	Excuse me if you think in sectarian terms then it is useless to argue with you as a sectarian mind is a closed one not open to any conviction.
2.	I had not made any statement in categorical terms but had qualified it with the word ‘perhaps’.  I agree with you that it is only God who knows about our heart.
3.	In objecting to my criticism of  the Mullah, excuse me, you have become presumptuously judgmental like the very Mullah.  Are you not a practicing Mullah yourself or you worship them as a deity above criticism as according to the Qurane Hakeem the Jews treated their Mullah (Ehbaar in Koranic terms)?  Do you think we should stop thinking altogether when Quran is the book which questions you again and again, “why don’t you think?” and  adds, “Those who don’t think are worse than animals”.  In fact at one stage the Quran even says, “O Prophet! Tell them leave everything aside and come to think individually and collectively (A random quotation?)”.  So thinking for the humans, according to the Quran, is the real ‘Ibadat’, be he an Ummi or an Ahle-Kitab, i.e., a layman or a Mullah. 
4.	As I had said at (2) above ,  The judge of ones faith is only God, the all-knower and any body who claims to be so is committing ‘Shirk’.  In this regard it would be pertinent to quote the Quran, “ The Arabs say: We believe.  Say, you believe not, but rather say “We submit,” for the faith has not yet entered into your hearts (49/14).  Allah-o-Akbar (Only God is great)!  It means we do not ourselves even know about our hearts.  
5.	The word ‘Salat’ is used at a number of places in the Quran with the meaning of ‘Dua’, which it really is, and why not call it as such.  Again, when you use Zakat, Hajj, etc., Quranic terms as such why adopt a pagan term for prayer in case of Salat, which we do use in Urdu, but for some other meanings.  In my view it is a serious corruption of the word ‘Salat’ to give it a pagan name especially when the Mullah himself objects to the use of other non-Islamic terms like ‘Khuda’ in place of Arabic term ‘Allah’ and use of Islamic terms by ‘non-Muslims’ like Ahmadies.   Here I may clarify that I use the term Mullah for all the religiously bigoted persons, professional or non-professional.
6.	You have mentioned the name of Moulana Moudoodi Mrhoom and his Tafheem.  I had a great respect for that man and as I lived near his home in Ichhra for a long time I had the good fortune of praying with him in Jamia Ashrafia and even once in Mansoora when I stood beside him.  I read his Tafheem also.  But for your information he was also not considered an ‘Ullama’ according to the so called ‘Jayyad Ullema’.  
7.	At the end I will quote a Hadees, “A person who calls himself a Momin is a Kafir and the one who says “I am an Aalim’ he is Jaahil”. (Abudawud and Tirmazi, as narrated by Hazrat Ali,  from Ehyaul Aloom by Ghazali, Vol. I, page218).  Doesn’t this Hadees clinch the matter under discussion between us.

With regards 
Syed Talawat Bokhari[/quote]

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