Truth About the Split — Page 63
63 the Promised Messiah’s as Nubuwwat was one Zahiruddin, a clerk in the Canal Department at Gujranwala, and his writings containing the belief may be traced as far back as 1911. The first of these writings was entitled Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur or The Appearance of a Prophet of God , which was published in April 1911 and must have been written towards the close of 1910 or in the early months of 1911. In this book the writer tried to prove that Muhammad sa was not the last of the Prophets but that Prophets would continue to appear after him. (2) Much notice of this book was not taken by the Ahmadiyya Community. But probably the contents of the book or some other leaflet on the same subject was brought to the notice of Khalifatul Masih I ra. Upon this there was some correspondence between the Khalifa and Zahiruddin and as a result an announcement was made by the Khalifa to the effect that as Zahiruddin was promulgating new beliefs he was not to be considered to have any connection with the Ahmadiyya Community. This was followed by repentance on the part of Zahiruddin. (3) But the repentance was not long-lived. On the 20th April 1913, he published another pamphlet in which he to mislead them. Of course, as I have already stated, it will be far from me to emulate him in his abusive style.