Truth About the Split — Page 318
318 virtue which Hindus impute to the river Ganges, the virtue that is of purifying everyone who visited its shores. In India, it might indeed be unlawful to pray behind Maulawi Zafar Ali Khan, but no sooner did he put his foot on English soil, than all his sins dropped away from him making it legitimate for anybody to offer his prayers behind him. I have said that after the publication of replies to the tracts there was peace and quiet, but this was only outwardly so. The fire of rancour smouldered within the breasts of the people, and this fact was manifested on the occasion of the Annual Jalsa in December 1913. It happened in this way. In the course of his address on the occasion of this Jalsa, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra once again made a reference to the anonymous tracts and expressed his strong disapproval of them. Upon this, the Paigham- e-Sulh promptly published a distorted version of his address stating that the Khalifa had expressed his strong disapproval of the booklets published in reply to those tracts by the Ansarullah. 11 The object was to 11 In summarising Hadrat Khalifatul Masih’s ra address, the Paigham-e-Sulh wrote: "The people who wrote the Izharul Haq and those who published the open letter as well as those who discussed the question of Khilafat and those who published the booklets what right had they to do so?" The Paigham-e- Sulh dated 14 th January 1914, page 13.