Truth About the Split — Page 155
155 permission thereof from me. Therefore, while the Khalifa is silent or till the Khalifa of the Khalifa does not appear in the world, you have no business to pronounce opinions on these matters. "—(From a speech at Lahore: Al-Hakam June 21 and 28, 1912. ) If one were to read the above words of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra side by side with the fatwa of the Promised Messiah as quoted below, one might see whether it was possible even to imagine Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra issuing a fatwa permitting Ahmadis to pray behind non-Ahmadis. The Promised Messiah writes: "Remember that God has informed me that it is forbidden to you and forbidden altogether that you should pray behind any Mukaffir (who attributes Kufr to another), Mukazzib (a denier) or Mutaraddid (a doubter). Your Imam should be one who is one of yourselves. " (Appendix, Tuhfa’- e-Golarhwiyyah , page 18). What Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra wrote to Khwaja Kamaluddin pertained to Khwaja Sahib himself and was a comment on his individual condition. It was not a fatwa, as may easily be understood from the following incident. Somebody wrote to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra for permission to pray behind a non-Ahmadi Imam, and Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra