Truth About the Split — Page 351
351 which Maulawi Muhammad Ali had taken a pledge with Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra ? Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s aim was only to bide time. In dissuading me from publishing the notice, his object was not to save the Community from any possible danger, but to throw the Community instead into an even more serious danger. This is evident from the fact that, even before I made my proposal for a notice, he had written a tract on those very subjects of controversy which he pretended to wish to avoid, and had it secretly forwarded to Lahore for printing. Could it be that while there was danger in restraining the Community from discussing controversial subjects,—danger of making them aware of differences in the Community, and thus creating anxiety for individual members, and so on—there was no danger when he himself wrote his tract on those very subjects, called a whole section of the Jama'at impious, and charged some with conspiracy? It is certain Maulawi Muhammad Ali knew that if he had put his signature to the proposed notice, people would have demanded of him an explanation of the inconsistency between his word and deed, and reproved him in the words of the Holy Quran: