Truth About the Split — Page 140
140 after His own affairs, and He being All- powerful, it is but vain on my part to be so solicitous about His work. If anything is going to happen contrary to His pleasure, He will Himself cause its prevention. It happens, however, that without my previous knowledge references to the article have been published in Al-Hakam and the Badr. If, under the circumstances, the article does not appear it may afford those already given to calling me names, occasion to think that all talk about the article was a hoax, intended to thwart and terrify them. If, therefore, there is nothing wrong in such a course, I would solicit permission to publish an announcement in the papers to the following effect: The editors of Al-Hakam and the Badr have, in their respective papers, made references to a certain article of mine. This was done without my knowledge or approval. But as it was impossible for me to publish the article without the permission of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra —fearing it should cause discord in the Community—I submitted the article to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra who has been pleased to disapprove