Truth About the Split — Page 316
316 reply to the tract Izharul Haq No, 1. The second was named Izhar-e-Haqiqat , and furnished a reply to Izharul Haq No. 2. Both these tracts were shown to and were corrected by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. At one place, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra added these words: "A thousand shames upon the Paigham-e- Sulh , which in publishing its letter delivered to us a declaration of war and cast the apple of discord. " After the publication of these tracts, I tried also to induce members of the party, in whose interest the anonymous tracts seemed to have been written and published to issue a refutation of them. But as they were only dissembling and were at heart in sympathy with the views expressed in the tracts, they avoided such a course on various pretences—all except Mir Hamid Shah Sahib who was good enough lo furnish written answers to the questions sent to him among others. Incidentally, Mir Hamid Shah Sahib was the only one out of this group who was granted the grace to enter later into my Bai‘at. Whether the purpose, which the authors of the anonymous tracts had in view in publishing them, was fulfilled or not would be known only to the authors of the tracts. According to us, one benefit which accrued from their publication was that it afforded us an