Truth About the Split — Page 209
209 general application, then their was no reason why he himself should have gone to meet Maulawi Muhammad Ali. The fact is that the charge is merely an excuse fabricated with a view to justifying their own aloofness from me and my Jama'at. A careful inquiry will show how my Jama'at have all along shown more readiness to mix with his adherents than they have shown to mix with mine. On the occasion of their annual gathering a good few of my followers invariably go and attend, but none of his adherents have ever attended our annual gatherings except on the last occasion when some of their members attended in response to a special invitation. Moreover, whenever any one of our members has happened to go among them, everything has been done to show him disrespect and contempt. For instance, only a few days ago I received a letter from one of my friends Miya ń Abdul Aziz, a P. W. D. overseer, which said that he had gone to those people but they did not allow him to stop with them. In short, they have now increased so much in their animosity to my Jama'at and have gone so deep in duplicity that any one of my friends who goes to mix with them runs the risk of hurting his self-respect. At present, their general attitude towards my adherents is one of indifference, save towards such people whom they expect to win