Truth About the Split — Page 151
151 It happened that when the announcement by Khwaja Kamaluddin was published, there was general whispering among the people that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was vacillating, sometimes saying one thing and sometimes another; that while on the one hand, he had put his signature to my article, he had, on the other, also signed the announcement by Khwaja Sahib. One gentleman brought this to the notice of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. I was at the time sitting nearby. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra denied that there was any discrepancy between his actions, and said that he had signed the announcement by Khwaja Sahib only because Khwaja Sahib had assured him that he had nothing to object to in Miya ń Sahib’s (the present writer’s) article and that his announcement had been prepared only to save those thousands of Ahmadis who lived on the frontier from being molested by their opponents, and that it was simply to appease the frontier-men, that he had expressed the sense of the article in language calculated to avert trouble. I remember that there were present at the time two or three other persons also, and, so far as I remember, there was present also an Ahmadi from the frontier, who had in a letter already made reference to this very question. Very likely, it was Mufti Muhammad Sadiq who brought this question to the