Truth About the Split — Page x
x PREFACE It is well known that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (Community) for the Regeneration of Islam in this age was founded by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as. When Hadrat Ahmad died in May 1908, the Community elected Hadrat Hakim Maulawi Nuruddin who, accordingly, became the First Khalifa of the Promised Messiah as. Dissensions, however, began to raise their head, so that when Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra died in March 1914, and the Jama'at elected Hadrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad as the Second Khalifa and Successor of the Promised Messiah as , a party of Ahmadis headed by Khwaja Kamaluddin of the Woking Mission, and Maulawi Muhammad Ali of Lahore, seceded from the main body of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at. They not only denied Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra , but rejected now the very idea and institution of Khilafat. Maulawi Muhammad Ali withdrew from Qadian and settled in Lahore as President of the new Anjuman Isha‘at-e- Islam. The party has since come to be known as the Lahore Group of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Ahmadiyya Anjuman-e-Isha‘at-e-Islam and Ahl-e- Paigham. A few years later, Maulawi Muhammad Ali wrote an account of these dissensions in English and had it