Truth About the Split — Page 99
99 should arise, one ought to seek help from God and have recourse to prayer. I would warn our members to shun such people. There is a number of them who go about giving publicity to their pretensions. " (The Badr 25 th January 1912) When the above was published, friends of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, namely Khwaja Kamaluddin, Dr. Ya‘qub Baig, Dr. Muhammad Husain and others gave out that the announcement was concerning M. Zahiruddin’s book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur. Zahiruddin thereupon in a letter to Khalifatul Masih I ra , made the inquiry whether the Khalifatul Masih ra had made any such announcement about his book. In reply, the Khalifatul Masih ra wrote to him saying that the announcement did not appertain to his book but to notices issued by Maulawi Yar Muhammad and Abdullah Timapuri. Subsequently we find M. Zahiruddin in his letter dated 22nd June 1912 to Khalifatul Masih I ra , referring to the Khalifa’s assurance in the following words: "Your favour is to hand. In reply I beg to submit that if in making the announcement the men you had in mind were only Abdullah Timapuri and Maulawi Yar Muhammad, then it would have been well to mention the names of