Truth About the Split — Page 293
293 to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra to consult him about the question. Articles by Maulawi Muhammad Ali were also published. These were openly in support of the agitators. The views of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra were, however, so far distorted in the process of publication that they came to have a meaning quite different from the one intended and the conclusion was drawn from them that on this occasion, Government had been guilty of excess, and that they were not justified in demolishing any part of the mosque. Such, however, were not the views of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra who had directed me to write that a bath formed no part of the mosque, and that consequently people were not justified in disturbing the peace over it. When the articles published in the Paigham-e-Sulh were brought to the notice of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , he strongly disapproved of them and made me write two articles under his personal direction, the notes of which are still in my possession. In these articles special emphasis was laid upon the point that baths attached to mosques formed no part of mosque and that those who were engaged in agitating over the affair were wrong and were in fact acting hypocritically. He desired me, however, not to publish the articles over his name but to publish them on my own account. When these articles were