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SOME IN-ISLAMIC ASTIECTS
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profound learning in Muslim theology, and having spread
the
teachings of Islam and "converted thousands," but none
of
them has so far ventured to smash down and raize to The
ground this closely guarded citadel of anti-Islamic forces,
this hot-bed of anti-Islamic ignorance and disobedience, which'
masquerade in a false garb of obedience to God and faithful-
ness to the prophet, within the Muslim community. The im-
portance and seriousness of this crucial Islamic problem will '
be further clear to all those who remember that the Quran
speaks of the prophet's agony of the soul as there were
disobedient disbelievers even among his personal Muslim
following during his own life-time. Charity, if it is genuine;
begins at home. That is a lesson which the Musalman
leaders and Musalman theologians have been systematically
neglecting all these centuries.
SOME UN-ISLAMIC ASPECTS OF THE BAN
The foregoing background of mental survey of the past,
brief and incomplete though, may, we trust, prove helpful
to the reader in assessing the true significance of the Muslim
League leadership. We have seen, and the world knows,
that it owes its sprout and existence to a seed which is political
reactionarism and not religious. We have seen, too, that
its nursery is anti-Indian communalism of the imperialist • -
self-seeker, who entertained neither love nor respect either
for God or for man. Islam it exploits merely as a prop
for its unholy existence and pursuits. The tree, however
far-Hung be its branches, however beautiful it may be in
appearance, cannot be different from its seed in quality.
And, as the Jesus had said, the tree is known by the fruit.
That is the League leadership which sees red in
the
Scayartha Prakagh,
and has enlisted the Sind Provincial