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A RETItOSPECT
was a false friend, if not an enemy, of democracy and Indian
humanity. One cannot stem the tide of progress without
being a reactionary, and a reactionary who plays the role of
a friend is unavoidably a false friend, very much worse and
more unscrupulous than an honest foe. The Englishman who
inspired an
all
-
India
Congress is truly a man of self-denial:
a great pioneer in the field of international amity and world-
peace ; while the Englishman, or whoever else he be, that
inspired a particular
communal
League is
necessarily
a self-
seeker, a war-monger and a veritable enemy of humanity and
world-peace.
The policy of the "Muslim" League, true to its origin
and past, is that of its inspirer, the self-seeker, who was
a
propagetor of discords and strife and crimes. It is not a
communalism born of love of humanity or India. Nor has
it sprung from any love of
Islam,
which is fundamentally a
teaching of man's self-denial and self-surrender for the
establishment of Divine peace in the world. The talk of Islam
and Muslim interests on the part of the League leadership,
therefore, is the talk of the self-seeker and not of the God-
lover. To this truth one must look if one must find the
correct explanation for the phenomenon that the more
popular the League becomes with the Musalmans the richer
are the harvests of crimes against humanity which it gathers.
If this is anybody's "religion", then the world, and India
in particular, shall have nothing to do with it absolutely.
And if that is not Islam, then all responsible Muslim leaders
must openly say so and literally act up to that statement
honestly and make proper amends for what has been already
done. Lip-service, an expression of "regret" or of "horror"
after the thing is done, is unavailing. It is no guarantee