Fazl-e-Umar — Page 126
Fazle Umar 126 himself. There developed quite a demand for his lectures sometimes attended by thou- sands of non-Ahmadis. Many Ahmadis took his increasing popularity as a sign that the non-Ahmadis were rapidly coming nearer to Ahmadiyyat and from this mistaken view began to copy his method. The propagation of the message of the Promised Messiah [as] thus came to a halt. The danger, towards which the Community was marching, though unconsciously and in ignorance, was on that very account the greatest that so far had ever risen in its path. Khawaja Kamal Uddin then left for England on 7 September 1912, in connection with some legal business. Though he left primarily for this purpose, he had it mind too to try and see what could be done by way of Islamic missionary effort in England. T H E A n j UM A n A n S A RU L L A H The mature minds in the Community like Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib were alarmed by the policy of Khawaja Kamal Uddin. They knew that numerically small commu- nities could not merge into larger ones and keep their characteristic features intact. Fundamental and revolutionary changes in beliefs, outlook, standards of conduct and national characteristics do not take place silently and quickly like clouds changing colour at sunset. At this time we find Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib in a position of great and peculiar difficulties. Gifted with an extraordinary solicitude for the welfare of the Community and its preservation on the path chalked out by the Promised Messiah [as] , he began to feel, as though by instinct, the dangers piling up fast on the horizon like dark and ominous clouds. The propagation of Ahmadiyyat was practically at a standstill. The Kamal Uddin-Mohammad Ali clique controlled the funds of the Community so that even Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih [ra] had to look to them when he wanted anything done.