Truth About the Split — Page 95
95 Muhammad Ali has described as the first, was written one month before the book by M. Zahiruddin was written and three months before it was published. Under the circumstances, to describe Zahiruddin as the source of my inspiration and the author of beliefs which I advocate, is a travesty of facts of which there are but few parallels in the world. The author of the belief is the Promised Messiah as or rather, we may, say, the Holy Prophet sa himself who spoke of the Promised Messiah as as a Nabi. We may go even further and say that the author of the belief is God Himself, in as much as He it is who addressed the Promised Messiah as as Nabi. We know there are Christian historians who, blinded by prejudice, seek to deceive the world by affirming that Islam was the product of the collective deliberation of certain little known persons of the time of the Holy Prophet sa. Their rashness in making such a statement is, however, put in the shade by the hardihood displayed in this instance by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. For, as the proverb goes, 'Bold must be the thief who goes with a light in his hand'. Christian historians seek to distort things which happened a long time ago, while Maulawi Muhammad Ali speaking about views which he himself endorsed in 1906, which have since been