The Musalmans of Hindustan (and) Musalmans of the whole world were looking to Pakistan with hope and longing eyes for guidance and help. Indian Musli… - Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

Ali Mian, as he is known to one and all, is almost without doubt the most influential Muslim teacher and figure today-among the laity, in government circles, and among scholars and governments abroad... And he has great, in fact decisive, influence on the politics of Muslims in India.

The liberal who happens to be a Hindu is so apologetic, he has internalized sham secularism so much, he is in any case so innocent of the texts—of Islam, of Hinduism, of our laws and our Constitution—and he has internalized double standards to such an extent that he has made silence on all matters Islamic, indeed toeing the fundamentalists’ line proof of secularism. The ‘secularists’ of the English press are a ready example. They will refer to Ali Mian as ‘the moderate, universally respected Muslim leader’, without bothering to read anything he has written.

Poets, writers and intellectuals of all ages have complained of degeneration of society. But human feelings and good people have still survived. Why? Because there were some who had the courage to give up self-interest and who risked not only themselves and their families but their future generations as well to save society from the rot.