Truth About the Split — Page 240
240 there, all felt a softening of heart and a renewal of faith and a complete absolution from selfish thoughts. It was a heavenly sign that we witnessed that day, a providential succour which had been vouchsafed to us. The service over, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra retired to his house, and some men produced a writing of the Promised Messiah as and endeavoured again to persuade the people that after the Promised Messiah as , the Anjuman alone was the rightful successor. The hearts of the people at the time were filled with the fear of God. They were unaware of the real intention of the writing. They were, therefore, all the more intensely moved to find that the Promised Messiah as had decided that after him the Anjuman was to be his successor. But nobody seemed to be aware why it was that such feeling was spreading over the people, and what was going to spring from behind the curtain. At last time came for the meeting and people were asked to assemble on the roof of Masjid Mubarak (the mosque which adjoins the house of the Promised Messiah as , and in which he used to perform the five daily prayers). Dr. Mirza Ya‘qub Baig came to me and requested me to go to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra and tell him that there was now no apprehension of any trouble, as it had been explained to every body that the rightful successor of the Promised Messiah as