Truth About the Split — Page 70
70 admits that M. Zahiruddin’s book had been finished in April 1911, and thinks that it must therefore have been written towards the close of 1910 or in the early months of 1911. The book contains 120 pages of small size and might have taken at the most a month in writing. But even assuming Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s estimate to be correct, it may well be asked how could the contents of this book published in 1911, have possibly been, known to me in 1906, when I so emphatically declared the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as ? What I say relates to the year 1905 when I was only seventeen years old. In that year in collaboration with the late Shaikh Abdur Rahim of Malerkotla, Chaudhary Fateh Muhammad Siyal M. A—later Muslim Missionary—and some other students, I decided to publish a periodical to advance the cause of the Movement and to create in the younger members zeal for the service of religion. Accordingly after securing the approval of the Promised Messiah as and requesting him to select a suitable name for the periodical, we published the same under the name Tashhidhul Adhhan. At the instance of these friends I myself undertook the editing of it. The first number was issued on the 1st March 1906. In the introductory article written by me and published in the first number, I made mention of