Truth About the Split — Page 174
174 contrary 'evidence' both external and internal, goes to prove the reverse. As external evidence, I quote below statements from Hafiz Raushan Ali Sahib and Dr. Khalifa Rashiduddin, L. M. S. Facts connected with the tract Kufr-o-Islam by Maulawi Muhammad Ali, as narrated by Hafiz Raushan Ali Sahib: "I remember that towards the close of his life, while Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was prostrate in his last illness, very likely sometime in the month of February 1914— he was still living in his own house in old Qadian—I was once sitting in the office of the Al-Fa d l in company with Sahibzadah Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, when there came to us my teacher Hafiz Ghulam Rasul Wazirabadi. He told us that Maulawi Muhammad Ali had written an article on the subject of Kufr which he would read out to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra next Friday after the service, and that he intended to read it out in private. Upon this Sahibzadah Sahib said that he too would be present at the reading, and that as the subject concerned an important question of belief we also should