Truth About the Split — Page 5
5 to secure even as many converts as have sometimes entered my Bai‘at in the course of a single month— among whom are to be counted men of the highest attainments both in secular and religious learning. Aim of The Split The only reason which can therefore be assigned to this publication, is the envy and jealousy which the Maulawi Sahib entertains towards me personally and which makes him very unwilling to see any success attend my endeavours. He has advanced so far in his envy that he seems to have ceased to care for any harm which his activities against me may cause to the general interest of Islam and Ahmadiyyat. Thus, knowledge of the success which continues to attend my humble efforts both in Northern India and elsewhere, has induced him, all other means failing, to resort to the device which he has tried on many occasions in North India—the device, namely, to present my principles in the worst possible guise, and in language calculated to excite the ire of non- Ahmadis, and to push this propaganda into distant lands with many a false story added to it. His object is to create in the people at large such an active hostility against the Movement that it should prevent them from joining its fold, and that it should make worse