Truth About the Split — Page 338
338 controversial subjects. I wondered what Maulawi Muhammad Ali could mean by saying that differences which had arisen in the Community were not yet known to people at large, seeing that the two Izharul Haq tracts had already been printed and circulated. Still, I accepted his proposal. I did hot know at the time that it was another ruse which Maulawi Muhammad Ali played upon me. Only subsequent events led me gradually to see that Maulawi Sahib was up to every kind of strategy in order to score his end, and that his reason for declining to sign the notice was not a reluctance to let people know about the internal differences of the Community, but that it lay far elsewhere. The people of Qadian assembled at the Masjid Nur, the mosque attached to the High School and situated near the house of Khan Muhammad Ali Khan Sahib of Malerkotla where at this time Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was lying on his sick bed. Maulawi Muhammad Ali and myself both went to the mosque to address the meeting. Maulawi Sahib expressed the wish that I should speak first. At this I stood up to speak without taking further thought of the circumstances. I merely repeated to the public in different words the substance of the notice I have