Truth About the Split — Page 201
201 book that he forgot his physical discomfort; and moreover its hearing enabled him to discover in me one he had been waiting for, for years. (He was here referring to the prophecy relating to a Promised son of the Promised Messiah as , a subject to which he was never tired of referring in all his writings and discourses). We may also note that he regarded the decriers of the book as the followers of the Pharaoh or like the Pharaoh himself—men who were in danger of being engulfed in a flood of darkness. After such exuberant assurances of approval and support which Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan was pleased to accord to my beliefs, it seems altogether inexplicable that he should on the ground of those very beliefs, now announce his renunciation of my Bai‘at. Such an abrupt change is incredible in any rational person. I am certain the actual reasons must be far other than those avowed. Either the said Sayyid Sahib has been grossly deceived, or words have been attributed to him which he never uttered. At any rate, it is hardly right to say that the oldest and most learned of the living Companions of the Promised Messiah as has written against my beliefs, because after such an unreserved support of them, for the same person to call them heretical can never be expected from any- rational man. Regarding the subject of the Kufr of