Life of Ahmad — Page 583
as ELEVATION OF RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION 583 misrepresentation of the opponents of Islam, and one would find the same motto published on the very first page of every issue of their monthly journal. I do not mean to say that the Anjuman is intentionally ignoring this aim which it has itself so emphatically asserted, but the fact is that the Anjuman, as it at present stands, is not competent to speak or write on the important topic of religion, or to refute with a degree of confidence and in detail the charges which have been brought against Islam by Christian writers during the last 60 years, or to eradicate the poisonous elements which have been polluting the atmosphere of the country. Would that this body had not meddled with religious matters at all and had confined the scope of its operations to political and social affairs!' Ahmad as wrote further that he was strongly opposed to a memorial 'which is clearly specific and in which the Government has been prayed to punish a person whose objections against our faith are still unrefuted. ' But he agreed in this, that 'We should approach the Government with a request in general terms that controversies and writings should be placed under some control and that a stop should be put to such license in disputations as may lead to a breach of the