Truth About the Split — Page 234
234 existence of the Community was at stake, that a few wicked people had raised the question in order to serve their private ends, and that their aim was to secure control of the purse of the Community in order to enable themselves to act in accordance with their own sweet will. In Lahore, a special meeting of the Ahmadiyya Jama'at was convened by Khwaja Kamaluddin at his own house, and it was explained to members that the entire Movement was in danger, that the proper representative of the Promised Messiah as was none other than the Anjuman and that if this view was not accepted it would ruin the Community and destroy the whole Movement. Signatures were also obtained from the people to a statement to the effect that according to the writing of the Promised Messiah as the Anjuman was his proper successor. Only two men, viz. Hakim Muhammad Husain Qureshi, Secretary Anjuman Ahmadiyya, Lahore, and Babu Ghulam Muhammad, foreman, Railway Office, Lahore refused to sign the statement. They said that they had sworn the oath of allegiance to a person who was superior to them in learning and piety and who exceeded them all in his devotion to the Promised Messiah as. They would, therefore only follow that which he would be pleased to command. In short, the statement was drafted and signed, the people had been