Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 210
210 AHMADIYY AT against him mending their ways. On one occasion he was so annoyed at the hostile attitude of the Paigham Solh that he obs~rved: 'Our people in Lahore have sent me PaighamJang [Message of War]. ' Later he directed that the Paigham Solh should not be sent to him, and he would never bring himself to read it. About the same time someone, probably one of those who had been responsible for the anonymous tracts, wrote a most offensive and impertinent letter to Sahibzada Mirza Mahmud Ahmad in which he charged him with con- spiracy and intriguing for the succession to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih, praised to the skies one of the principal personalities among the disaffected, and exhibited a most contemptuous attitude towards the Sahibzada Sahib. He also challenged him to deny the charges preferred against him on oath. As the letter was anonymous Sahibzada Sahib published a detailed reply to it in the issue of the AI-Fazal Of19 November 1913 in which, among other things, he also denied on oath the charges that had been made against him. On 15January 1914 the Khalifatul Masih recorded a note: Last year some stupid people attempted to create differences amongst the members of the Community in which I was also made the target of attack. The purpose of the authors of the anonymous tracts was to create confusion in the Community. But God Almighty of His grace safeguarded me and the Community against this mischief. Despite all the admonitions of the Khalifatul Masih the nefarious activities of the dissentient group, instead of being restrained, continued to be intensified both overtly and covertly, right till the death of Khalifatul Masih 1. It is only just and fair, however, to mention that during the period of the first Khilafat the Sadar Anjuman Ahmadiyya (Central Ahmadiyya Association) carried out several useful projects for which it deserves full credit. As the majority of the Anjuman was disaffected towards the Khalifa, their ac- tivities ofa beneficent character, for instance, the construc- tion of the hostel of Talim-ul-Islam High school, of the