 During his seventeen-year stay in the party, he represented the intellectual element and remained a member of the central governing body, "Majlis-i-Shura".During this period, he did the groundwork needed to write a commentary of the Qur’an – an objective which he had set before him early in life.In 1956, when the Government of Pakistan set up the "Islamic Law Commission", Imam Islahi – also an eminent expert on Islamic law – served as a member until the commission was abolished in 1958 by the martial law regime of General Ayub Khan.