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152 notice of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. I do not know whether Mufti Muhammad Sadiq still remembers the incident but for myself I am prepared to affirm it on oath. I now ask Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his friends whether he or they are prepared to affirm on oath that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra really understood the purport of my article in the sense alleged by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. I am sure, they will never venture to do so, and will only make excuses to escape the oath. They know full well that it is impossible to understand my article in any but its own evident sense. Misstatement about Saying Prayers behind Non-Ahmadi Imams The sixth item which calls for attention in Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s account of the dissensions, is his statement that towards the close of 1913, I once again made the announcement that the deniers of the Promised Messiah as were kuffar , that this announcement reached the ears of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra and that his fatwa allowing Ahmadis to pray behind non-Ahmadi Imams was also criticised by me. Though during my pilgrimage to Mecca in 1912, I had myself said my prayers behind non-Ahmadi Imams, and so had all Ahmadis who