Truth About the Split — Page 93
93 after the same, was the origin and source from which I had derived my views. Can a person be deemed worthy of calling people to faith who does not himself shrink from practising deception in matters of faith? A man who has no scruples while indulging in such a distortion of facts can hardly be a fit person to invite others to truth. I really wonder how Maulawi Muhammad Ali could venture to state that M. Zahiruddin’s book was the origin of my writings, and his beliefs the source of my inspiration. He admits that my article on ' Kufr or Islam' was published in April 1911, and the note— quoted above—in the Badr bears ample testimony to the fact that it had been written in the month of March preceding. On the other hand, in the book written by M. Zahiruddin on the page which bears the note referred to by Maulawi Muhammad Ali and only four lines below the note is to be found the statement that the work was published in July 1911. The date—5th July 1911—has in fact been noted in bolder type than that in which has been printed the date quoted by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. In view of facts so obvious, and in spite of possessing full knowledge regarding them, the statement of Maulawi Muhammad Ali that it was Zahiruddin’s book which inspired my article could not but be due to a design on his part to mislead