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313 refuting their attacks, the writers should fail to observe an exact balance of language. These five considerations show that the tracts were published by Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s friends and partisans. Their publication makes two facts quite clear. First that in a controversy with this party, it is useless to expect them to observe any moral, civil or religious law. For, it will be observed that in the publication of the tracts there was, in the first place, a transgression of the civil law of this country, inasmuch as the name of the press where the tracts were printed, was not printed on the tracts. There was also a violation of the law of propriety, because in these tracts some very foul charges had been brought against Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra and myself and my relatives by a person or persons who chose to remain anonymous. There was, therefore, no possibility of ascertaining the truth about the charges, because, so long as the accuser did not furnish any proofs in support of his statements, there was no means at all of refuting those statements. There was also an infringement of the religious law of Islam as the writer or writers had raised their voice against, and had charged with un-godly conduct and immorality one to whom they had sworn the oath of Bai‘at , and inasmuch as they had chosen to publish, without a