Truth About the Split — Page 205
205 commands, and so far as we know Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his partisans still profess to respect his decisions. Do We Keep People in the Dark? The twelfth item in Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s narrative of the dissensions is that I have prohibited my followers from having anything to do with members of the other section; that I have prohibited them from eating at the same table with them, from mixing with them in social intercourse, and from reading any book or tract published by them. Thus my followers have been kept ignorant of the arguments which are being given in refutation of such of my beliefs as are contrary to the views of the Promised Messiah as. This last link in Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s account of the events which led up to the split in the Community is as feeble and flimsy as any of his other statements. I have never forbidden any of my followers from making friends with any members of the seceding party, or from eating at the same table with them, or from reading their literature. The whole charge is a libel fabricated by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. In fact on the contrary, I find that when in the year 1915, at the death of Maulawi Abdul Hayi, son of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , Maulawi Muhammad