Truth About the Split — Page 9
9 writings I have always taken due care not to depart from the code of civility and propriety observed among all honourable men and have availed myself of all opportunities to draw his attention to this habit of his. It is however a great pity that he has never cared to pay any heed to my advice and has continued to use the strong language which he set out to use in the very beginning of this controversy. People living in other countries are not aware of what in this country is a matter of common knowledge that it was Maulawi Muhammad Ali who started the practice of publishing controversial tracts addressed to individual persons or containing personal references. It was he who only a has sought to cover his mistake by a lie". "As if he (referring to the writer) would sometimes make a false statement for fear of stating a controversy". In his book Tabdil-e-‘Aqida ka llzam , (which is a reply to my tract Muhammad Ali Sahib ki Tabdil-e-‘Aqida Maulawi Muhammad Ali writes: "Miya ń Sahib (meaning the present writer) and his disciples consider it light to be Athim (sinner) or Azlam (extreme wrongdoer), but deem it as worse than death to bear witness to truth, therefore they have refused to make a statement of the truth". . . "These black hearted criminals did not see". . . "May not this party be the representatives of those whom you, till yesterday, considered to be the worst of all the dwellers on earth". . . "You may call and inquire of these men who are blind of moral vision, who give the name of apostates to the servants of the faith, whether such rashness on their part in face of the public declaration of a person will not make them liable to the curse of God". . . "If the Pir is truthful than his party are proved to be deceivers of mankind, On the other hand, if the party represents the creed taught by the true religion then the Pir been an advocate of falsehood". . . "Today, to deny these facts will serve not only to besmirch their faces, but it is certain that persistence in the denial will blacken their hearts and bring upon them the divine curse, and prove them to be fit objects of the appellaton: "Ye who apostatised after being believers".