Truth About the Split — Page 112
112 aiming at a rift in the Community. In his letters, he had made it a rule to charge the Khalifa with want of veracity. For instance, as already pointed out it was clear from his letters that he received with suspicion the assurance by the Khalifa that his announcement did not relate to Zahir, and inwardly believed that the report of the speech as published by the Zami ń dar was the correct one, while the one published in Al- Hakam was intended to satisfy Ahmadis. It was on account of this that in his correspondence, in spite of the repeated assurances by the Khalifa, Zahiruddin persisted in declaring that he was opposed to the doctrines of the Khalifa. When, however, he found that the Khalifa had expelled him from the Community and that nobody took his part, he recanted outwardly and apologised for his conduct and was received back into the Community. But in reality he was only waiting for a more favourable opportunity. Thus, his professed doctrinal difference with the Khalifa was not based upon any actual facts. It had its basis in the secret conviction that the doctrines outwardly avowed by the Khalifa were sheer camouflage, his actual beliefs being far other than those which he openly professed. Zahiruddin wanted to persuade the Community to this view about the Khalifatul Masih ra. But his machinations proved