Truth About the Split — Page 163
163 and have several times been published in print, but Maulawi Muhammad Ali would still persist in misrepresenting the facts to the people, and try to induce them to believe that, while I had myself said my prayers behind non-Ahmadi Imams, I was now dissuading others from doing so. I would ask every fair-minded reader to say whether it is possible for any reasonable person, acquainted with the details of what happened, honestly to charge me with any such duplicity, and whether to describe facts in the way in which Maulawi Muhammad Ali has done, is not really an attempt to mislead the people? He learnt of them from me and my companions. Is it not unfair on his part to relate one part of the story and suppress the other parts? Next, there is the statement that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih charged Maulawi Muhammad Ali with the duty of enlightening the Ahmadiyya Community on the question of the Kufr or Islam of non-Ahmadis, and that he himself dictated some notes on the subject which were the basis of Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s pamphlet. Regarding this statement, so much, of course, is true that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra who was at the time very seriously indisposed, did ask Maulawi Muhammad Ali to write a tract and also that he dictated some notes to Maulawi Muhammad Ali, but