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125 myself the editor, is that at that time I either shared the same views with Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan or did not venture to give public utterance to my own views for fear of Khalifatul Masih I ra. I am, however, sorry to submit that the facts of the case fail to bear out either of the two conclusions which Maulawi Muhammad Ali seeks to draw from them. In the first place, the words of Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan possess no special authority. They may be regarded as possessing the same value as the words of any other learned man. In the second place, the publication of his article in the Tashhidhul Adhhan cannot lend any special value to the views expressed therein, because the article was published in October, 1913, when I had already for two years ceased to have any active connection with the magazine. At that time Qazi Muhammad Zahuruddin Akmal was the de facto editor of the Magazine. The managing body of the paper, however, continued to print my name on the cover in order to retain its popularity, inasmuch as it was I who had been editing it since its foundation. Under the circumstances, if any particular view was at that time published in the magazine, it cannot justly be cited against me. I was not then its active editor nor were the articles published in the magazine shown to me whether in original or in proof. Nevertheless, if