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150 attributed to it by Khwaja Kamaluddin. Seeing, therefore, the impossibility of both these alternatives, the only alternative left is to believe that either Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra did not actually read the Khwaja’s announcement, and authorised its publication merely upon hearing about it from Khwaja Sahib or that the ambiguous announcement, wherein Khwaja Sahib by the deft use of a tortuous style had tried to undo the effect of my article, had been wrongly understood by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. The announcement by Khwaja Sahib as well as the substance of it, given by Maulawi Muhammad Ali, would show that Khwaja Sahib had intended to attain his end by the use of ambiguous language. But for this, he could well have declared in plain words that non-Ahmadis were Muslims. He had no business to try and interpret my article while I was alive and was well able to interpret it myself. If any doubt really existed regarding its intention, he ought to have referred the matter to me. The very line of action, adopted by him, shows that he aimed at hood-winking the public, and it was to this end that he employed an equivocal style of expression. If Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra really read the announcement and sanctioned its publication, then he must have misunderstood its purport; and there is corroborative evidence in support of this view.