Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 145

145 Movement would resemble, more than others, the history of Jesus as and his followers. Nevertheless, as the Promised Messiah as was also the spiritual counterpart of the Holy Prophet sa , it was certain that the followers of the Promised Messiah as would be saved from the serious disasters which overtook the followers of Jesus as. The article then proceeded to state that after the death of Jesus, non-Christian communities encompassed the ruin of the faith preached by Jesus as by adopting a policy of amity towards the Christians. Something similar was going on at the present time. Non-Ahmadis were trying to induce us to join their fold. The reason for this was that Satan had discovered that he could make no impression upon Ahmadis by a frontal attack; he had, therefore, set up after them irreligious folks of the day in the hope that they would succeed in injuring the Ahmadiyya Movement under the guise of friendship. Accordingly, the cry had been raised that the difference between Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis was not serious enough to justify their maintaining such a distance. It had also been urged that it is of no benefit to either of the two parties to call others kuffar , Those they say, who called the Mirza Sahib (the Promised Messiah as ) kafir were obviously wrong, but it was now for Ahmadis to forgive and forget. Such were the