Truth About the Split — Page 308
308 considerations which fellow professionals have for one another those belonging to different newspapers are willing to render small services of this kind to one another. Fourthly, in these tracts the ideas expressed were the same as those which were entertained by Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his party. Only the language employed with reference to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was less respectful than was generally used by them in their public conversations, and with regard to this, I can name more than twenty persons who are witnesses to the fact that in their private conversations some prominent members of Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s party used to employ the very terms with reference to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra which had, been used in these tracts. It was only after the death of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra that it became customary with them to praise Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. While he lived, these people in their private correspondence used to refer to him in very derogatory terms. In illustration of this, I shall here quote a few passages from letters, which two leading members of the party had written to the late Sayyid Hamid Shah Sahib during the lifetime of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. The first letter was