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34 LEAGUE ASSAULTS ON SATTAITHA PEAKASH
Those who are acquainted with the Muslim history
know that these errors and prejudices and fights can have
no end. They multiply and continue in countless succes-
sion, wherever they are allowed to strike roots. Even
during the early periods of Muslim history, as "beliefs"
grew and prejudices increased, differences multiplied, due,
of course, more to secular than to any spiritual or moral
causes among "the followers of the same Quran", and
distinct sects under distinct leaderships sprang up. These
sects had soon begun the practice of characterising each
other as unbelievers, infidels—each sect arrogating to itself
the sole monopoly of the pleasure-hunting rights of entry
into the paradise, and was ready to commit any and every
barbarous crime and sin, make any secrifices and to die in
"defence of that right". But that is a different matter, into
which we need not at the present moment enter deeply. But,
all the same, that is a historical fact which should warn India
of the serious dangers that lie ahead, of the stern actualities
of the Indian situation, which are the pure products of the
deep and long cherished "beliefs" of fundamental mis-
conceptions, mental prepossessions, prejudices and bigotry
about the Quranic religion and its teachings. And it is
important to remember that the other non-Musalman com-
munities are not entirely free from similar vices, though in a
far less aggressive form. It is not therefore at all a matter
of secondary importance or interest that every true reformer,
every saint, who graced the Indian humanity with his
guidance and teachings after the advent of this "Islam"
in India have been contributing their valuable share to bring
about complete elimination and eradication of the source
of these pernicious evils. And the central theme of the
examples and precepts Sri Guru Nanak Dev and his illustrious
successors was no other.
Dayananda, the great seer that he was, also found in
the general state of psychological errors and confusions
which were prevalent in his time the main root
from which sprout out all other causes and problems
of evil, which effectively hinder and retard India in her
march towards purity, unity, strength and freedom. Thus
it was necessary for him to expose this root-evil clearly