Truth About the Split — Page 223
223 should the teachings of Muhammad in the form in which they had been presented to the world during the last 13 centuries be now regarded as obsolete. There could be no greater insult to Islam than to suppose that the mainstay of its life depended upon a personality which appeared in the world thirteen hundred years after the advent of Islam. (9) That this was an age of learning and much good would have accrued from the presentation of philosophical interpretations of the Holy Quran. The Appendix proposed for The Review of Religions might have been printed separately, and subscribed to exclusively by members of the Community. This arrangement would have increased the circulation of The Review of Religions. But, unfortunately, Ahmadis chose to follow the path of narrow-mindedness, and while non-Ahmadis offered to break down barriers, Ahmadis themselves worked to keep them erect. In another letter Dr. Adbul Hakim wrote: "What! do you think that not one out of thirteen crores of Muslims is truly God-fearing and righteous, that the spiritual influence of Muhammad has ceased to work in the entire mass of Muslims, that Islam has become altogether a body without life, that the Holy Quran has altogether lost its influence, that God and