Truth About the Split — Page 228
228 About this time, Maulawi Muhammad Ali began to entertain certain grievances against our mother, Hadrat Ummul Mu’minin. (Mother of the Faithful). Whether these were real or imaginary, Maulawi Muhammad Ali took them to heart. He went even so far as to refer to them in the columns of The Review of Religions (Urdu edition). As I had always been a staunch supporter of the Khilafat idea, his prejudiced mind induced Maulawi Muhammad Ali to think that my support to the Khilafat arose from the fact that I aspired to become Khalifa myself. To his opposition to the Khilafat idea, therefore, he now added opposition to members of the Promised Messiah’s as family, especially opposition to me. To promote this opposition he even had recourse to steps enumeration of which is neither possible nor desirable at this place. In the meantime, the days of the Annual Gathering ( Jalsa ) approached near and friends of Maulawi Muhammad Ali made special preparation for addresses on the occasion. In these addresses they sought one after another to impress upon the Community that the real successor and Khalifa appointed by the Promised Messiah as was no other than the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya (Central Ahmadiyya Association), of which Maulawi Muhammad Ali and others were the trustees.