Truth About the Split — Page 126
126 Maulawi Muhammad Ali would still insist upon holding me responsible for the matter in the magazine, on the ground that my name was connected with it as its nominal editor, then it would be only right and proper that Maulawi Muhammad Ali should himself accept responsibility for the notice of the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur , published in The Review of Religions. But apart from the question of responsibility, I deem it necessary to point out that a consideration of Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan’s articles goes to show that they by no means justify the conclusion drawn by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. For, excepting the use of the term Juzwi Nubuwwat , the articles serve only to confirm the Nubuwwat of the Promised Messiah as in the sense claimed by us. What concerns us is the writer’s intention, not the terms which he uses. A difference of terms is of no great moment so long as we agree on the meaning of those terms. It is true that Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan in his article in the Tashhidhul Adhhan spoke of the Nubuwwat of the Promised Messiah as as a Juzwi Nubuwwat (or Partial Prophethood) but at the same time he added regarding all the Israelite Prophets, raised after the Prophet Moses as , that their Nubuwwat