Truth About the Split — Page 110
110 differ from certain beliefs held by you, and so long as you do not prove the error of my views I shall continue to stand by them. " ( Al-Hakam , page 46, October 1912. ) Accordingly, we find that in the reply to the letter which was sent to him privately by the Khalifa, he proceeded to say: "You contended that it had reference to you. I assured you that it bore no reference to you and contrary to my practice, I even mentioned to you the names of the persons referred to in the announcement. But in spite of that, you state very boldly that you are opposed to beliefs entertained by Nuruddin and stand firmly by your own beliefs". In another letter, the Khalifa wrote, "Because you state in your letter that you differ from beliefs held by me, I do not consider you an Ahmadi". If one were to read those quotations side by side with the public announcement, one would clearly see that the Khalifatul Masih ra expelled Muhammad Zahiruddin from the Ahmadiyya Community, not on account of any actual differences of belief, but on account of Zahiruddin’s own profession in writing that he differed from the beliefs held by the Khalifa, and that he was firmly attached to his own beliefs. In fact, the Khalifatul Masih ra was sorry that when he had explicitly stated that Zahiruddin was not the subject of his announcement, the latter should persist in stating