Truth About the Split — Page 121
121 Z ahiruddin’s Second Expulsion The third point, worthy of note in Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s account of the dissensions, is that in April 1913, Zahiruddin published another tract in which he tried to prove that the new Kalima (formula of faith) promulgated by him was not an error and that therefore he was once more out off from the Community, and though ostensibly this was because he was a claimant to the Khilafat, really it was because of the promulgation of the new beliefs. There is no doubt that Zahiruddin published another tract in April 1913, but, so far as I am aware, there was nothing like an announcement of his expulsion from the Community, because the opinion, expressed by him in the tract, was so much at variance with Islam that no need was felt either by the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community or any learned member of it to excommunicate him from the brotherhood. The person who formulates a new Kalima after the Holy Prophet sa , ispo facto withdraws himself from the Movement, and there is no need for his formal expulsion from the Community. This, in my opinion, was the reason why no announcement regarding him was published by the Community. It is, therefore, incorrect to say that either the Community or their leader said anything regarding Zahiruddin’s claim to