Truth About the Split — Page 78
78 of an exposure? Or was it real personal conviction? For myself, I am disposed to think that at that time Maulawi Muhammad Ali honestly shared the conviction that the Promised Messiah as was a Nabi. To attribute the origin of the doctrine to M. Zahiruddin is thus a very unhappy invention on the part of Maulawi Muhammad Ali. Maulawi Muhammad Ali had a passing fancy and proceeded to use it as a foundation to build upon it an airy castle. As a matter of fact the Ahmadiyya Community has since the lifetime of the Promised Messiah as recognised him as a Nabi. In particular, Maulawi Muhammad Ali as well as myself have alike borne written testimony to this conviction and the only difference between us is that I have up to this time remained faithful to my old convictions while Maulawi Muhammad Ali has already retracted them. In connection with this changed attitude of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, it is remarkable how close a parallel it offers to the case of Maulawi Muhammad Husain of Batala, one of the greatest opponent of the Promised Messiah as. The latter also in the early years of the Promised Messiah’s as career held up to universal admiration the very revelations of the Promised Messiah which later on he pronounced to be heretical, and in his review of the Promised