IN THE MONTH OF RAMZAN 89

My fight continued even when I was lodged behind prison
bars. I have been several times In prison and every time
I have left only friends behind in the jail officials and
others with whom I have come in contact.

" It is a speciality of non-violence that its action never
stops. That cannot be said of the sword or the bullet.
The bullet can destroy the enemy ; non-violence converts
the enemy into a friend and thus enables the civil resister
to assimilate to himself the latter's strength."

By their Civil Disobedience struggle, he continued,
they had demonstrated to the world their determination
no longer to be ruled by the British. But they had now
to give proof of valour of another and higher type. During
the Khilafat days tall, hefty Pathan soldiers used to come
and meet the Ali Brothers and himself secretly. They used
to tremble at the thought of their visit being discovered
by their superior officers and resulting In their dismissal
from service. In spite of their tall stature and physical
strength they used to cower and become servile when
confronted by a person physically stronger than they,
" I want strength which will enable me to submit to none
but God, my sole Lord and Master. It is only when I can do
that that I can claim to have realized non-violence."

He then proceeded to expatiate on another speciality
of non-violence, viz., one need not go to a school or a
pir * or a guru to learn its use. Its virtue lay in its simpli-
city. If they realized that it was the most active principle
that worked all the twenty-four hours without rest or
remission, they would look for opportunities for its appli-
cation in their homes, in the streets, in relation to their
foes no less than friends. They could begin to practise it
in their homes from that very day. He had disciplined
himself sufficiently never to feel angry with the enemy r
but he confessed that he sometimes lost temper with
friends. Such discipline in non-violence as he had, he
told them, he had at home from his wife. And with that*
he unfolded in poignant detail a chapter of his domestic

* A Muslim spiritual teacher.