Truth About the Split — Page 118
118 could not possibly be that while announcing the pardon granted to Zahiruddin Al-Hakam should at the same time have been commending the book, publication of which had led to the author’s excommunication, and had compelled him to sue for pardon. Would not such levity on the part of the editor of Al-Hakam have rendered himself liable to excommunication by Khalifatul Masih I ra ? Is it possible that the editor, while noting that Zahiruddin had committed a mistake and now repented and was sorry, should have himself committed the same offence and commended that very poisonous book? Anyone who cares to peruse the article in Al-Hakam , cannot but arrive at the conclusion that the expulsion of Zahiruddin from the Community was not based on "the contents of the book ( Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur ) or some other leaflet on the same subject. " (It is important to remember that up to that time no other book or leaflet on the same or a kindred subject had been published by Zahiruddin. ) In expressing his views on the story of the excommunication and pardon, the editor of Al-Hakam wrote: "The service rendered to the Movement by Maulawi Zahiruddin by his publication of the books Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur , Vedon Ka Fatur and Radd-e-Chakrhalawi , is not such as we can afford to forget. " These words clearly show