Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 166

166 expressing the view that he has distorted the facts intentionally. The real facts of the case are as follows: Some 15 or 20 days before his death, Hadrat Kahalifatul Masih, while dictating notes to Maulawi Muhammad Ali, observed, in the course of a point: "There are people who wonder at me and ask what has happened to me that at times I call non-Ahmadis Muslims and at times kuffar. They have failed to understand it. Yes, even our Miya ń (meaning the present writer) has not understood it. " Relating to this incident, I have already published in my Al-Qaulul Fasl sworn testimonies of several persons who were present at the time. The same are reproduced below: "I was with Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra with several other friends including Miya ń Sahib (the present writer,) when in the course of his discourse Hadrat observed 'The question of Kufr and Islam is regarded as a most difficult one but in spite of what people say regarding me—that I sometimes call non-Ahmadis Muslims and at other times kuff a r —God has given me such an understanding of the question as has not been given to anybody else, not even to our Miya ń. I swear by the Omnipresent and