Truth About the Split — Page 212
212 I have now refuted one after another all those items in Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s account which needed refutation. I am confident that whoever goes through my refutation with an impartial mind will be fully convinced that Maulawi Muhammad Ali in his book The Split has indulged in a whole series of misstatements, that in his account of the dissensions he has on not less than twenty-four occasions, taken recourse to intentional prevarications entirely oblivious of the awe and fear of God. People who live far away from the headquarters of the Movement, who are not in direct touch with its affairs, who have not been eyewitnesses cannot realise the gravity of those prevarications. Nevertheless, the strong evidences here produced should enable them to arrive at a just appraisement of the truth. And as in the proverb—a few grains from the pot are sufficient to show what the rest of the contents are like—the many prevarications and misstatements noticed above cannot but serve as index of the nature of the person who had recourse to them. Matters for which I have furnished documentary evidence require no further proof. As for matters, for which written evidence is not forthcoming and which must therefore rest upon oral evidence, I challenge Maulawi Muhammad Ali, in case he regards any of them to be false, to say on