Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 200
200 AHMADIYY AT with regard to me but that you are anxious to define the authority of the next Khalifa. How do you know that he might be greater than Abu Bakr and Mirza Sahib. . . . I had it in mind to take a certain step today but God Almighty has restrained me from taking it. I bow utterly to His wisdom. You should try to remove the defect from which you suffer. . . . I do not desire to expel such people from the Community, perchance they might realize the truth sooner or later, and lest I should become the cause of their going astray. I admonish you again to get rid of rancour and jealousy. If a matter of security or danger should arise, do not publish it. However, when something is finally decided it might be given publicity. I warn you that you will have to carry out my directions willingly or unwillingly, and in the end you will have to affirm that you obey me willingly. Whatever I tell you is for your good. May Allah keep you and me firmly on the path of guidance and may our end be good. Amen. Sometine in 1910 Hazrat Khalifatul Masih resigned his office of President of the Central Ahmadiyya Association and directed that Sahibzada Mirza Mahmud Ahmad Sahib be elected President of the Association. Thus. the confusion between the authority of the Preside!lt of the Central Associ- ation and the Khalifatul Masih was cleared up. The Sahibzada Sahib was then 21 years of age, and whenever the occasion aros~ that the Khalifatul Masih could not lead the prayer service himself he would direct the Sahibzada Sahib to lead the service and in case of the Friday noon service to deliver the address. This made the disgruntled section jealous of the Sahibzada Sahib and they had recourse to various devices that were aimed at reducing the activities and the growing in- fluence of the Sahibzada Sahib in the Community. On 18 November 1910 Hazrat Khalifatul Masih fell down while riding a pony and received serious injuries on his face and head. For some days his condition continued serious and caused anxiety. During that period, one day Khawaja Kama- luddin Sahib, Maulvi Muhammad Ali Sahib, Dr Mirza Yaqub Beg Sahib and Maulvi Sadruddin Sahib got together