Truth About the Split — Page 367
367 was published in the Badr of June 2, 1908, was first submitted as a supplication to Hadrat Khalifatul, Masih I ra on May 27, 1908. And then after the Bai‘at of Khilafat had been held, a further announcement in the same issue of the Badr was made by Khwaja Kamaluddin as Secretary, Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya. This announcement was to the following effect: Before the funeral prayers of the Promised Messiah as were held at Qadian, and in accordance with his instructions contained in the book Al - Wasiyyat … Hakim Nuruddin Sahib was proclaimed the Promised Messiah’s as Successor and Khalifa, and the oath of Bai‘at taken on his hand. . . This announcement is being addressed as information to all members of the Movement, so that on reading it they should all in person or through letter present themselves at once to Hadrat Hakimul Ummat Khalifatul Masih wal-Mahdi and take the oath of Bai‘at. No new will or testament had since been found by Maulawi Muhammad Ali that he had now come to regard Khilafat as wrong. So the truth is but this that for their next Khalifa the Jama'at was looking not to him but to somebody else.