Truth About the Split — Page 146
146 specious arguments advanced by the advocates of rapprochement. But praise be to God—I proceeded to say—Who endowed some of us with insight, and they realised the true dignity of His Messenger. They were not prepared to regard as ordinary the denial of him for whom heaven and earth had borne testimony, who was the Promised One of all the earlier Prophets, for whose sake the great God humiliated and brought to naught so many of the learned savants and saints from amongst the so-called Muslims, and who had the promise that till the last day, God would let his followers have the upper hand over his enemies. Regarding the main subject of my article, I wrote that as we believed the Promised Messiah as to be one of the Prophets of God, we could not possibly regard his deniers as Muslims. It is true we did not consider them to be kafir billah , (deniers of God), but how could we doubt that, they were kafir-bil-ma’mur (deniers of a God’s Messenger)? Those who say that they regarded Mirza Sahib as a righteous person and so did not deserve to be called kuffar , ought to consider whether a righteous person ever spoke an untruth. If Mirza Sahib as , was indeed a righteous person, what possible objection could there be to their subscribing to his claim. After this, the article proceeded to quote passages from the writings of the