Truth About the Split — Page 386
386 Muhammad Ali Khan Sahib and Doctor Rashiduddin. When we arrived there, there was to begin with some talk on the subject of the translation of the Holy Quran. I then turned the conversation to the immediate purpose of our visit. But Maulawi Muhammad Ali called out to a certain half-witted man known as Miya ń Bagga, and started talking at random with him. When I found that Maulawi Sahib was not disposed to bring his talk with Miya ń Bagga to a close, I had to get up and withdraw. Soon after this, Maulawi Sahib left Qadian. He took away with him properties of the value of nearly Rs. 3,000/ in books, type-writer, etc on the plea of having had to translate the Holy Quran. Some people advised me at the time to ask him to leave behind the properties. He was not likely, they said, to return, and was taking away the properties only on a false pretence. Some even went so far as to urge that the properties were a sacred trust and I must not be negligent in taking proper care of them. But I replied to them all saying that as Maulawi Muhammad Ali had given the assurance that he was taking those books and accessories in order to help him in the work of translating the Holy Quran, and that he was going out only for a few months, for the period of leave already sanctioned to him, I had no