Political Solidarity of Islam — Page 2
constant wranglings and bickerings with the members of other communities. It is human nature that when a person does a certain thing once or twice, he feels impelled to do it again and again. This is why persons who are used to picking a quarrel with other people become easily excited and are inclined towards creating mischief and disorder. In the past few years, due to political differences the inhabitants of a few towns in the Punjab had become dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs and had lost their peace of mind. Naturally a section of them, whether they be Muslims, Hindus or Sikhs, seem to have become deprived of their balance of judg- ment and on causes too trivial and trifling burst into anger and are led to commit acts which are detrimental to their own interests. Since urban. opinion, as a rule, leads the rural, the activities in the towns have their repercussions in the countryside. But a few towns such as Lahore, Amritsar, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Ludhiana and Batala alone are the hot-beds of all heat and agitation. Sialkot of late appears to have cool¢d down, perhaps because that section of its in- ~abitapts who are prone to readily become excited and tp d,isturb the peace have realized their m~stake or h'?1ving tired qf creating constfi. nt disorder are taking rest. By that secticm of pebple to whom I have referred are meaμt the Ahrars and by their mischievous campaign I mean those activities which for some time pai:;t they have been carrying on against the Ahm~diyya; t whether the Ahrar leaders. themselves have set them on fqot or they are m~re. tools in the hands of more sinister influences which are work~ng from behind the curtain, -some. individuals or groups who realizing that th~ Ahi:nadiyya Community stands in the way of their dealing an effective qlo. w to Muslim interests hav~ initiated them and the Ahrars are mere pawns in thi. s. d. ~ep pol. itical game. But as I am not in. possession of. any clear and irrefutable proof to satisfy my doubts, l. all) forced back to the concl\lsion that this section of Muslims is an unfortunate victim of the perversio~ of