Truth About the Split — Page 86
86 28). Further on I said, "God is no tyrant. We may look to ourselves and observe that one of His Ambiya ’ came to us and left us having done his work. " (p. 39). Later on, I again spoke on the same subject in the Annual Conference held in December, 1910, This speech was published in the Badr of 19th January, 1911. In this speech also I laid special stress upon the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as , which point might be said to have been the central topic of the whole discourse. The reason for this lay in the following circumstances. In 1910, my respected and valued friend Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, and Maulawi Sadruddin, one of the friends of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, were sent out on a missionary tour. In the course of their tour they had occasion to meet Maulawi Shibli, the well-known founder of the Nadwatul Ulema. In the conversation that ensued, mention was made of the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. In answer to a question by Maulawi Shibli the two gentlemen said that they called the Promised Messiah as a Nabi in the strictly literal sense of the word. Although the answer was quite accurate, seeing that the literal significance and the theological connotation of the term Nabi are identical, yet the form of the answer conveyed a certain impression that the word Nabi bore a certain technical meaning when