Truth About the Split — Page 350
350 controversies and keep all excesses in proper check, Maulawi Muhammad Ali had observed that as Ahmadis outside were unaware of the internal differences of the Jama'at such a notice was likely to prove injurious to the Movement. And now the same Maulawi Muhammad Ali had written not a notice but a tract and had sent it to Lahore to be printed, and not only had intended to distribute it himself, but had noted upon its first page a request to all Ahmadis widely to distribute the tract. This action of his seemed to be beyond my comprehension, and I wondered what to think of him, who while dissuading me only two days before from publishing a notice on the ground that it would prove a severe trial for many Ahmadis, had full one week before written a tract on the questions in dispute, and sent it to Lahore for printing and publishing. Could such an action, I wondered be consistent with true piety? Was there any sincerity in the reply he made to my proposal for a joint notice? Was it not mere diplomacy? Did not such action indicate the absence of a proper fear of God? Did it not contradict the clear teaching of the revealed word of God, the teaching promulgated by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa —the teaching to which, to lead back the world was the mission of the Promised Messiah as and for the due observance of