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208 them suspended, 8 and to be left severely alone by the Community. But, nevertheless, when as a kind of special concession, I sought to keep up relations with them, they plainly declined to respond to my overtures, and refused to accept our repeated invitations. And now they have the grace to lay the same charge at our door! Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his associates sometimes point to a certain article by Qazi Zahuruddin Akmal in support of this charge. This article was written after the return of Khwaja Kamaluddin from England, and it contained an exhortation to the Community to beware of him. But my accusers ought to remember that, in the first place, the article was not written by me; it expressed the view of one individual member of my following. In the second place, the article contained an exhortation to Ahmadis generally relating to a leading disturber. It did not speak of the mutual relations of the two sides, or of their leading members. This was apparent from the fact that the writer himself called at their headquarters, in order to see Maulawi Muhammad Ali, but the latter paid no attention to him, and failed to show him the ordinary civility due to a visitor. If the article was intended by the author to have any 8 Sa‘ad who did not acknowledge the Khilafat of Hadrat Abu Bakr had all relations cut off with him by the Companions.