Truth About the Split — Page 194
194 parallel. Now if any one were to slight him, and to speak about him saying that he was a child of yesterday, reared by their hands, given to sport and frolic, then one ought to remember that such remarks were the characteristic of the Pharaoh who spoke to Moses as saying 'Did we not rear thee in our midst as a child? You lived amongst us many a year of your life'. Well brother! If such thoughts were to arise in the heart of any of you, you should seek forgiveness of God, because the end of the Pharaoh was bad indeed. (The Badr for January, 1911). Thus, it is impossible to say that Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan had no knowledge of the beliefs which I held. He knew all about them. He accepted my Bai‘at with full knowledge of their nature. And now, on the ground of those same beliefs, he has renounced my Bai‘at. Who is there who, under the circumstances, will look upon his action with approval? One more point to be remembered, in this connection, is that my belief regarding the nature of the Promised Messiah’s as prophethood is the same as that of Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan, as stated by him in the Tashhidhul Adhhan. The difference is merely one of terminology.