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LEAGUE ASSAULTS ON SA TYARTHA PRAKASH
tion that, since the ban appears to be a veiled show of
the mailed fist of the rank, open League communalism, the
grounds enumerated in the Notification is likely to be
.anything but genuine, that they are all malicious and
false. As the whole basis of the Notification and the
"grounds" therein enumerated is thus disingenuous, malicious
and
false, the entire origin and direction of the proceedings
and consideration, in respect of Rishi Dayananda's writings
in that book, in respect of the constructon and applica-
tion of the law and the exercise of the powers conferred
upon the Government by the statute
can
hardly be said to
be anything but vicious, spiteful or prejudiced and mit
4hievous.
The ban on the
Satyartha Parkash
is therefore on (men
'fraud upon the statute. It is a deliberate and oniinous
violation of every known principle of morality and religion.
Is that act consistent with any fundamental
I slimie
•
ing in the Quran '1 is that the guidance which the Quran
gives to the Muslim regarding his disposition and conduct
towards his neighbours and other fellow-beings 4? To quote
Danananda such a violation against the permanent in-
terests of the human soul is
"beneath the dignity of
man".
The second reason why there is noliwarrant for suspicion
that
Satyarta Parkash is like
ly to promote intercommunal
enmity or hatred is that it has not promoted it during the
long years of its existence in the past. The years from 1875 to
1946 marks a period which is longer than the life-existence of
the Muslim League from its conception and birth to this
day. To compare the number of Hindu-Muslim riotH, and
the extent and volume of the orgy of savage violence,
Jesulting in an enormity of sub-beastely ba,dialit• and
crimes, by which Mother India has been made to suffer
during this period, as a result, whether directly or indirectly,
of the preachings and work of those that constitute the League
leadership in India, is death to compare and contrast
between the virtues and worth of Dayananda's writings in
the
Satyartha Parkash
and the. current "religions teachings"
and "beliefs" in the Quran, as they are understood by its