"If you make Muslims one hundred per cent mindful of their supererogatory prayers, making them all very pious, but leave them cut off from the wider environment, ignorant of where the country is heading and of how hatred is being stirred up in the country against them, then, leave alone the supererogatory prayers, it will soon become impossible for Muslims to say even their five daily prayers. If you make Muslims strangers in their own land, blind them to social realities and cause them to remain indifferent to the radical changes taking place in the country and the new laws that are being imposed and the new ideas that are ruling people’s hearts and minds, then let alone [acquiring] leadership [of the country], it will become difficult for Muslims to even ensure their own existence."
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in Muhammad Nafis Hasan, Meri Tamam Sarguzasht: Sayyed Abul Hasan ‘Ali Nadwi (Delhi: 2000), p:35
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Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi ( 5 December 1913 - 31 December 1999) also spelt Abul Hasan Ali al Hasani an-Nadvi (affectionately 'Ali Miyan') was an Indian, Islamic scholar, and author of over fifty books in various languages.
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