Truth About the Split — Page 291
291 to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra saying that as the friends named above were preparing to publish a paper from Lahore, and that as this paper would serve the purpose I had in view the publication of my paper, if Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra should permit, might be dropped for the present. To this Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra replied that there was a difference between the objects of the two papers, and that I should therefore continue the preparations I had started for my own paper. So, I went on with my preparations. In the early part of June the Paigham-e-Sulh was issued from Lahore, and towards the middle of the same month the Al-Fadl made its appearance from Qadian. The publication of these two papers meant to outsiders only the addition of two papers to hundreds already existing in the journalistic world of India, but for the Ahmadiyya Movement their appearance proved to be an event of the greatest moment in its history. The publication of the Paigham-e-Sulh brought to the surface the poison that had so long been accumulating in the body of the Community, and attempts to obliterate the distinctive features of the Ahmadiyya Movement began to be made openly. The Jama'at of Qadian was made the object of special attention in the articles published in the paper, and overtures for peace began to be made to the enemies