Truth About the Split — Page 67
67 Community into false beliefs viz. (i) that all the followers of the Qibla professing the Kalima (the Muslim formula of faith) are unbelievers and outside the pale of Islam, (ii) that the Promised Messiah as is a full and real Prophet, not a partial Prophet or a Muhaddath (iii) that the prophecy relating to Ahmad (Al-Tahrim, 66: 6) is for the Promised Messiah as and not for the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. (10) The learned Sayyid was not the only one who made such a declaration. Many educated persons had done the same before him in the Paigham-e-Sulh and besides them other educated Ahmadis were realising the great error into which the Community was being led and their dissatisfaction with the beliefs taught by me was becoming more and more pronounced every day. (11) But there was one step which, according to Maulawi Muhammad Ali, I took in the beginning and by which I have succeeded in keeping my section of the Community in the dark. I condemned the opposing section of Ahmadis (i. e. friends of Muhammad Ali) as Fasiqs and prohibited my followers from having any relations with the members of that section, so much so, that they were forbidden to take food with them at the same table or to have friendly relations with them or to read any literature issued by them. Thus, my followers remained generally ignorant of the