Truth About the Split — Page 102
102 Khalifa should have tried to dispel the suspicion that there was reference to Zahiruddin in the Khalifa’s announcement, nor any reason why Zahiruddin should not have been included among the persons alluded to in the said announcement. Under the circumstances one also fails to understand why the Khalifa should have had to complain that when he had clearly pointed out that Zahiruddin was not the subject of the announcement, the latter should still persist, in saying that he differed from the Khalifa in his beliefs. If the Khalifa had actually disapproved of Zahiruddin’s book, then whether the fact was mentioned in the announcement or not, a difference in beliefs would still have been an established fact. But, the Khalifa denied the existence of any such differences and asked why Zahiruddin still insisted that he had differences with the Khalifa, when the Khalifa had already assured him that the announcement bore no reference to him. From this statement, it is clear that up to that time the Khalifa did not think that there were any differences between him and Zahiruddin in the matter of beliefs, and considered it groundless and unreasonable that Zahiruddin should speak of differences with the Khalifa. The second point in which Maulawi Muhammad Ali has departed from the truth in his narrative of facts