Truth About the Split — Page 6
6 the lot of those few earnest souls, who in places far away from the centre of the Movement and hemmed in on all sides by opponents had, in spite of very adverse circumstances, responded to the call of the Divine Summoner. Such a consummation will perhaps bring solace to the heart of the Maulawi Sahib, and though it may mean death and destruction of the true Islam, it will at the same time spell a failure of my endeavours. (May God preserve us from such an eventuality). The Maulawi Sahib, however, appears to have overlooked the fact that men who join a Divine movement at least in its earlier days, are generally such as are prepared to stake their lives when they accept the truth, and no difficulty can persuade them later to swerve from its path. In the case of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad sa , did not the unsheathed swords of their enemies fail in their attempt to turn them from their path or to obliterate them from the face of the earth? Similarly also in the case of the Imam of this age, did not the utmost efforts of his enemies fail to grind to dust the men who followed him? And in the light of such instances, does the author of The Split expect that the fire of opposition which it has been his endeavour to kindle, will succeed in burning to ashes Ahmadis in distant