Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 84
N UBUWWAT AND K HIL A FAT 84 Then in 1926, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra presented another way to resolve the matter: If all the statements written by Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i , prior to the split, pertaining to the subject of nubuwwat, are collected together, I will sign them and will state that to be my belief. ( al-Fa d l, October 9, 1928) This offer was a very powerful strike upon the changed doctrines of Maulav i Sahib. Up to his death he could not respond to it. Then in 1944, in a conclusive argument for the Ahmadiyyah Anjuman-e-Ish a ‘at-e-Islam, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra chal- lenged Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i to a prayer duel and also added that Maulav i Sahib would never accept that challenge. ( Furq a n , Qadian, June 1944) The statement on oath given by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra and both the methods of settlement offered by him are a clear and conclusive proof that he held the same belief about the nubuwwat of the Promised Messiah as before and after the split, and it did not undergo any change. Rather, those outside the pledge to khil a fat , changed their doctrines after the split. What they wrote before the split shows the exact same belief that those Ahmad i s hold who have pledged allegiance to khil a fat. But after the split, the leader of the group who did not adhere to the Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyyah , Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i , writes: He was a Nab i in the same sense in which the other Mujad- did i n of the ummah can be called A ñ biy a’. ( Tract, Meirei ‘Aq a id , p. 6)