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190 novel or heretical, or to make them the ground of an announcement against me. I say this because he has been familiar with those beliefs for a long time before now, and was well aware of them, when the Bai‘at of my Khilafat was held. For, as Maulawi Muhammad Ali admits, my article on the subject of Kufr of non- Ahmadis was published in the Tashhidhul Adhhan of April 1911 and, as he further admits, I have since been writing regularly on the subject. Thus when even in the lifetime of Khalifatul Masih I ra , I had declared non-Ahmadis to be kuffar , and this was well-known to members of the Movement, I can only wonder why Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan, who knew all this, entered into my Bai‘at. If my beliefs were really such that their entertainment rendered me unfit for the office of Khalifa, how was it that on the day of the election in the Masjid Nur, it was he who stood up to propose me for the Khilafat, and he who made a powerful speech in my support? A more proper attitude for him, on seeing people wish to enter into my Bai‘at , would have been to dissuade them from doing so, to point out that I had pronounced all Muslims to be kuffar , and that therefore I was not fit to be their Khalifa. As it happens, I have had no occasion to enter into any elaborate discussion of this question of Kufr of non-Ahmadis, since my election