Truth About the Split — Page 76
76 Ali was proof of the complete unison between the public and private life of the Promised Messiah as , since such unison alone could produce a deep impression upon the young mind of a child. All this, however, has now changed. According to the present opinion of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, my views published in the Tashhidhul Adhhan are highly dangerous, dark and full of error. In other words, the article had put the axe at the root of Islam and things had been said in it which in the opinion of Maulawi Muhammad Ali were to prove the source of a dissension hitherto unknown in Islam. The article was a poison cup intended to destroy all spiritual life. What therefore was meet was not to refer to it as a miracle, but to greet it with execration and abhorrence and instead of saying that such excellent views of his son proved the truth of the Promised Messiah as , Maulawi Muhammad Ali should have likened me to the son of Noah and seriously warned the people not to be deceived by my doctrines, which were not those taught by the Promised Messiah as , who never claimed to be a Nabi and never intended that the term should be applied to him. He might have gone even further. Apprehensive of the harm that was likely to be caused to Islam by my article, he might have gone to the Promised Messiah as crying and lamenting and told