Truth About the Split — Page 323
323 Likewise, on another occasion, when I happened again to be present, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra reverted to the subject and said, "Regarding myself, people are wont to remark that I sometimes call non-Ahmadis Muslims and at other times kuffar. The fact is that people have not been able to understand me at all. It is a difficult matter and even our Miya ń (meaning the present writer) has not understood it". Though Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had considered Maulawi Muhammad Ali to be unconcerned with this question, yet Maulawi Sahib was full of envy and prejudice. The opportunity was to him a godsend, and while Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had told him to write one thing, he wrote quite another. Instead of writing upon the Quranic verses on the subject and reconciling those which seemed to some to be inconsistent, he wrote an article on the question of Kufr and Islam of non-Ahmadis. Meanwhile, a report was published in the Paigham-e-Sulh that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had said that the Miya ń (the present writer) had not understood the question of Kufr and Islam. The report however, as I have already said, was quite wrong. 12 (See this book pp. 160, 162) 12 The Paigham-e-Sulh , dated the 3rd March, 1914 wrote: "Even the Miya ń has not understood it. " Risala Kufr wa Islam , p. 12 wrote: "Even the Miya ń has not understood the question. "