Dear Brother Salman I humbly request you to fully read Maulana A S Desai's works with an objective mind. if you do this you will realise that his anger is only when it is addressing somebody who is deliberately trying to contort and reinterpret the Shariah. You state that his writings disgusts you. Pray, please provide me with examples of where his writings have caused disgust to you? Is it simply his language that is targeted towards those who wish to distort Allah's Law or is it something else? Please also inform me when you have ever seen a writing of his that he has attacked somebody for personal reasons? Brother Salman, have you ever visited him and spent time in his company? If not then if Allah grants you the opportunity to visit South Africa then please visit him and speak with him. your misconceptions will be alleviated. I also apologise for derailing this thread. I will finish with this quote of Imaam Ghazzali which I feel is very beneficial, “The Salaf of the Ummah of Sayyiduna Muhammad agreed to condemn people with deviant ideas, and to abandon them and cut relations with them, and to be hard in rebuking them, but to be mild in disagreements of juristic details.” (Mustasfa, Pg 350).