Truth About the Split — Page 298
298 sue for his pardon, but no sooner did they return from his presence than they reverted to their own ways. This period was fraught with the gravest danger for the Movement, because even its enemies had now become aware of the disputes which for some years had been dividing Ahmadis into opposite ranks. Nor were they slow to take advantage of this state of affairs. They began openly to encourage the Lahore party, and to induce them by various means to persist in the dispute till at last Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was compelled once to call the Paigham-e-Sulh (lit. message of peace) Paigham-e-Jang (lit. message of war). The truculence of the new party was, however, confined to the columns of their newspaper. They still continued to entertain a fear of Hadrat Khalifatul- Masih and as they dared not write anything openly against him their fettered activities naturally led some followers of Maulawi Muhammad Ali to take a leaf out of the book of the anarchists of Bengal, so that they began publishing a series of tracts which bore the name neither of its publisher nor of its author. Two tracts in this connection, were published by them under the titles of Izharul Haq No. 1 and Izharul Haq No. 2.