Truth About the Split — Page 106
106 Muhammad Ali is also wholly false and contrary to facts. Maulawi Muhammad Ali found it necessary, in order to compass his purpose, to prove that the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur was really at the root of all these dissensions and that the Khalifa was opposed to the views set forth in it. He, therefore, tried to distort the actual facts and to fabricate new facts which would lend support to his version. In the announcement by the Khalifa, it was not mentioned that as Muhammad Zahiruddin was promulgating new doctrines, he was not to be considered as having any connection with the Ahmadiyya Community. What the Khalifa wrote was that as, notwithstanding his assertion that a certain announcement did not refer to him (Zahiruddin), he still persisted in saying that he was opposed to beliefs held by the Khalifa, therefore, on the basis of his letter (and not on the basis of his book) the Khalifa announced that Zahiruddin had no connection with the Ahmadiyya Community. As stated by Maulawi Muhammad Ali, this announcement by the Khalifa, was published in the Badr of 11th July 1912. I shall here quote the announcement in full in order that readers may judge for themselves how far Maulawi Muhammad Ali has been honest in his statement of the case. The announcement was as follows: