Truth About the Split — Page 239
239 Khalifatul Masih ra , the question was well talked over in the mosque, and every aspect of it was explained to the congregation. At length, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra came and began the service. The text he chose for recitation was the chapter entitled "Buruj" As he came upon the verse: "Those who cause the believing men and the believing women to fall into trial and repent not, for them is the punishment of hell and the torment of burning", a strange influence fell upon the whole congregation. It seemed as though the verse had been revealed just then. The heart of every worshipper was filled with the fear of God. The mosque seemed a hall of mourning. In spite of the utmost effort to control, such loud sobs and moans involuntarily escaped many worshippers that never perhaps had a mother wept more bitterly over the death of her only son. Not a man was there who did not weep. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra himself had his voice choked by the intensity of the emotion. And such a strange feeling seemed to have passed over the whole people that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra recited the verse for a second time. Then every member of the congregation seemed half- dead and save the few recalcitrant spirits that were