Tabligh Movement
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once. It was not because he had no money, but
because he saved his money to buy books on the life
of the Prophet Mohammad. Maulana Inamul
Hasan, a friend and classfellow of the Maulana
recounts how both of them had decided to keep
awake at night to study. “It was arranged that one
night the Maulana would keep awake for the first
half of the night while I slept, and then, at midnight,
he would waken me and give me a cup of tea so
that I could study during the latter half of the night.
Then he would go to sleep. The next day I did vice
versa. One night the Maulana studied in the first
half of the night and the second night I studied in
the first half of the night, thus giving ourselves
some variety. “In his later life at Basti Hazrat
Nizamuddin, he had a busy schedule, but he had
fixed a period of time every day to read and write.
An incident recounted by a religious scholar from
Nadwa, Lucknow underscores this aspect of the
Maulana. It seems that at a gathering addressed by
the late Maulana Yousuf, there was pindrop silence
for his words of wisdom and inspiration. Maulana
Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, a great religious
scholar, who was also present on this occasion,
