Truth About the Split — Page 373
373 Conspiracy Charge against the Ansarullah Another method they adopted in order to mislead the people was to represent the Bai‘at of Khilafat as the result of a conspiracy by the Ansarullah. As already said, the total strength of the Ansarullah throughout India was less than 175. So even if one were to assume that the Ansarullah made themselves very active in this affair, what influence could the opinion of a hundred or a hundred and fifty men exert upon that of two thousand and five hundred? Of what consequence was the opinion of such a small body? As for the alleged conspiracy, it will suffice for the purpose of refutation to quote a statement from the right hand man of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, Hakim Muhammad Husain alias Marham-e-‘Isa, a preacher of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at-e-Islam, Lahore. The statement was made by him at the time when these charges were made against the Ansarullah. It runs as follows: "I bear witness in truth that I was for a considerable time a member of the Ansarullah, and even now, if Miya ń Sahib has not removed me from membership, I consider myself one of its members. At the meetings of the Ansarullah held at Lahore in which I had the occasion to take part, I