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LEAGUE ASSAULTS ON SATYARTHA PRAKASIT
inherent and irremediable causes of mutual opposition and
conflicts in them—is might be the case with capitalism and
Marx's communism. There is a fundamental hermony,
clear and understandable, between the two. If, according
to the Leaguers, Dayananda has "rediculcd the authorita-
tive value and character of the Quran" and "attacked and
belittled the authority of Prophet Mohammed" by his ex-
posures of bigotry and such other vices in Chapter XIV, is.
it not also clear to these Leaguers that he, by his repeated
emphasis upon the Vedic devotion to God, Vedic way of
exalted moral and righteous life and the Vedic
teachings of One God, the Supreme Creator and Lord of all,.
One God's Religion and One God's humanity, has "extolled
the authoritative value and character of the Quran" and
"supported and heightened the authority of Prophet
Mohammed" who preached substantially these same teachings.
in the Arabic language ?
We have heard the other day the story of a very learned
and eminent Indian nationalist Musalman leader, who said
some years ago that any Musalman, though he be the most
degraded, is a much better man than "your Mahatma
Gandhi", who, though he may be a saint, is not a Musalman,
but a Hindu. We hesitate very much to fully believe this
story, although we do not regard it as utterly false. Because,
we know, it is on all fours with the current popular "beliefs"'
of Quranic teachings among many sections of Indian
Musalmans. And so also, the lesson of what happened during:
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's recent visit to the Pathan areas.
of India is a most significent one. According to their own
admissions, the Khan brothers were comoletely powerless.
against those who attacked "the Pandit" and his party,—not
because the former were actually resourceless or otherwise
incapable of effectively dealing with them and putting a
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complete end to all those attacks, but because all these
attacks, which varied from black-flag display to gun-fire
combat, came from "their own men", the Musalmans.
During the whole period of Pandit Ji's stay with them, their
one and only thought and effort, before which all else melted
and disappeared, was how to avoid, whatever be the cost,
conflict and class between themselves and these "their own
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