Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 117

117 book and corresponding with the author had ordered his expulsion from the Community, the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya, in whose organ the appreciation had been published or Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself who was formally, if not actually, the editor of that organ and was therefore, in the eyes of the public, responsible for its reviews, or the writer of the appreciation himself, should have taken steps to undo the harm that had been done to the Community by means of the notice and to inform the Community that the book contained sentiment so dangerous as to have led Khalifatul Masih I ra , to expel its author from the Community, and that whatever commendation of the book had been published in the Anjuman’s magazine was a mistake which need not mislead any of the members. In addition to evidence furnished by this commendatory notice in The Review of Religions , there is other strong evidence which disposes of the allegation by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. This is that the whole story of the expulsion of M. Zahiruddin and his re-admission into the Community was published in Al-Hakam , the oldest newspaper of the Movement, during the lifetime of Khalifatul Masih I ra. The same article which contained the story, contained also a commendation of the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur. It