Truth About the Split — Page 23
23 should prevail. " In other words, the Khalifa was nothing, all power was to vest in a parliament. The same is the motto of the party presided over by Maulawi Muhammad Ali viz. that the Khilafat has no validity and that the affairs of the Community should be under the control of an Anjuman. But just as the Kharijites, after a few years of agitation and violence, at last disappeared and were lost, so also now, God willing, the same fate awaits their modern successors. Argument from the New Testament Maulawi Muhammad Ali has quoted certain verses of the New Testament to show that when the enemies of the first Messiah accused him of blasphemy by having claimed to be the 'son of God,' the charge was rebutted by the Messiah saying that the name 'son of God' which had been given to him was only metaphorical and had been used in the same sense in which the name 'God' had been used with reference to the previous Prophets. But after the death of Jesus as , his followers began to call him the 'son of God' in a literal sense, that is, in the same way as we understand the word 'God' to signify the Creator of the universe; and it was in this sense that the Jews accused him that he had claimed the title. From this Maulawi Muhammad Ali proceeds to argue that just