Truth About the Split — Page 2
2 every intelligent reader who cares to peruse its pages. For, in the first place, the book has been written in English, whereas the vast majority of the followers of Ahmad as at present are his own countrymen, who joined him during his lifetime and lived in his company and heard his words as they fell from his lips, and read his books in the language in which he wrote them. Up to now the number of such Ahmadis is in excess of that of all the Ahmadis put together who live in other countries. English is not the mother tongue of any of them; nor do they, with a very few exceptions which do not amount even to one per cent of the total, read or understand that language. Was it then the author’s solicitude for the progress of the Ahmadiyya Movement and his love for Islam, that impelled him to bring out this book? May be, the spread of beliefs taught by me which, according to him, were extremely offensive and provocative, had resulted in arresting the progress of the Movement, in countries outside the borders of India, or may be, my dangerous teachings had served to alienate people from the Movement, so that in the interest of the Movement and for the sake of Islam, the Maulawi Sahib was compelled to inform the people at large that the beliefs promulgated by me were false and contrary to the teaching of the Promised Messiah as