Truth About the Split — Page 183
183 are engaged in misleading Ahmadis. Nevertheless, those who have deserted us to join Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s party are few, and have been compensated many time over by those who have left his party to join us. I am prepared, in case Maulawi Muhammad Ali desires, to furnish proof. As for his statement that a majority of the enlightened Ahmadis are opposed to my views, it is but a claim for which Maulawi Muhammad Ali has still to furnish some evidence. Of course, if we start with the assumption that those who belong to his way of thinking are enlightened and those who do not are not, then certainly not a majority but rather all the enlightened members of the Community have abandoned my party and joined his. If, however, such an assumption is inadmissible, then there is no evidence for Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s claim. For, if there are any men learned in religion whom Maulawi Muhammad Ali can produce from among his followers, then there is a much larger number of them whom I can produce from among my followers. This is, however, a futile method of arguing, useless for the establishment of truth. If, however, Maulawi Muhammad Ali is fond of arguing in this way, we are quite prepared to stand even this comparison of strength.