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111 that he was opposed to the Khalifa’s beliefs. And when a follower confesses that he holds beliefs contrary to those of the Khalifa of his time and that he will not give in spite of explanations, but will only further stiffen in his opposition, what remedy is there for such a case but to exclude the recalcitrant from the Community? The question may now be asked, when there were no actual differences of belief or doctrine between the Khalifa and Muhammad Zahiruddin, and when the incorrect version of the speech published by the Zami ń dar had already been corrected by Al-Hakam , and when the Khalifa himself had contradicted the unfounded report regarding Muhammad Zahiruddin’s book to which some persons had given publicity, what ground was there for Zahiruddin to urge that he had differences of doctrine with the Khalifa? To understand this, it should be remembered that although the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur contained nothing repugnant to the teachings of the Movement, yet at the time (1912), when his differences with the Khalifa began, a change had begun to come over the views of Zahiruddin. He had begun to entertain the belief that he too was the subject of some prophecies by the Promised Messiah as. He had, in fact, actually begun to spread such views among Ahmadis and was