Truth About the Split — Page 247
247 wonders at the sincerity of this man who today poses as the reformer of the Community! If what, Maulawi Muhammad Ali said on coming down from the mosque were supported only by the uncorroborated testimony of Maulawi Abdur Rahim Nayyar, I would not have incorporated it here. For, however, reliable as a reporter he would still have been the only witness of what was said, while my purpose here is to incorporate only such facts as have the most irrefutable evidence behind them. But as later events also proved that when Maulawi Muhammad Ali renewed his Bai‘at with Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , he was actuated only by fear and expediency, we have no reason to disbelieve the statement of Maulawi Abdur Rahim Nayyar. There is also another incident which goes to corroborate M. Abdur Rahim’s story. Soon after this meeting on a certain occasion when I was present with Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra a message came to him from Maulawi Muhammad Ali to the effect that the Maulawi Sahib had resolved to leave Qadian as he had been insulted and humiliated. This also supports the statement of M. Abdur Rahim Nayyar. There are hundreds of eye-witnesses to these events. Among the people who took part in this