Truth About the Split — Page 25
25 inquire into is what was the charge brought against him by his enemies. We find that his enemies charged him with having claimed to be a Prophet with a new law, as will appear from the following quotations from one of his letters published in the Akhbar-e-‘Am , a daily paper of Lahore. (This is the oldest paper of the province. Its editor and proprietor are Hindu gentlemen. In this paper a report had been published to the effect that the Promised Messiah as had renounced his claim to be a Prophet. Thereupon, the Promised Messiah as addressed a reply to the editor in his own handwriting under date the 23rd May, 1908, i. e. only 2 or 3 days before his death. A few lines from the letter are here quoted. The Promised Messiah as wrote: "In the Akhb a r-e-‘ A m of the 23rd May, 1908, in the second line of the first column, it has been reported about me, that at the dinner I pronounced a denial of my prophethood. In reference to the same, it should be known that in that meeting what I said was simply this, that I had all along been informing the public through all my writings and declare even now that the accusation, brought against me, is entirely unfounded, namely that I claim prophethood of a kind