Truth About the Split — Page 301
301 Doctor Mirza Ya‘qub Baig Sahib were being held up to opprobrium. The Promised Messiah as had declared in clear words that after him the Anjuman would be his successor not an individual person. He had written distinctly that after him the Sadr Anjuman would have the last word in all matters. But now every one could see the present attitude of the Community—how they received with implicit obedience every word of a Ghair Ma’mur (one not Divinely commissioned—a term which this anonymous writer applied to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra ). The Khalifa had refused to receive the Paigham-e-Sulh , and had thus alienated from it the sympathy of the Community. (Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra tired of the continued duplicity of the Paigham-e-Sulh. had directed that it should no longer be sent to him, and when the managers of the paper persisted in sending the paper to his address, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra declined to receive it from the Post Office. ) When, therefore, this man regarded by the Community as the most learned in the knowledge of the Quran, (i. e. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra ) treats leading members of the Community with such indignity, and only in order to display his pontifical authority, what can the leading members expect from young men lacking in experience and immature of understanding? How long will the