Truth About the Split — Page 225
225 should cut off such a person from the body of my Jama'at. Accordingly, I hereby and from to-day excommunicate you from my Jama'at. " The immediate effect of this sharp and severe chastisement by the Promised Messiah as was that no other member of the Community at the time could gather courage to support and subscribe to the views expressed by Abdul Hakim. But, nevertheless, it would appear that the ideas had already found deep root in the hearts of some members of the Community, and chief among them was Khwaja Kamaluddin. Facts go to show that the faith of Khwaja Kamaluddin at this time had already begun to crumble. His subsequent writings make it clear that he really had fallen a victim to these views of Dr. Abdul Hakim, and today it is an open secret that it is just these views which Khwaja Kamaluddin advocates. So far as I can judge, Maulawi Muhammad Ali did not at first subscribe to these views. But Khwaja Sahib discerned in him a very useful instrument for the attainment of his purpose. So he persisted in his endeavours to win Maulawi Sahib over to his views. In course of time, he managed to do so and encouraged Maulawi Muhammad Ali to criticize even the Promised Messiah as. I do think, however, that