Truth About the Split — Page 360
360 fully aware that the many published speeches of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra bear ample witness to what the great Khalifa thought and believed in this respect. The conduct of Maulawi Muhammad Ali in the whole affair is indeed very amazing. But much of the amazement disappears when we remember that once before Maulawi Muhammad Ali had turned his back upon the Will of the Promised Messiah as himself. For, we remember that after the death of the Promised Messiah as , agreeably to his instructions contained in Al - Wasiyyat , Maulawi Muhammad Ali not only pledged his Bai‘at to Hadrat Maulawi Nuruddin as Khalifa of the Promised Messiah as , but also published an announcement calling upon other Ahmadis to do the same. (The Badr 2nd June, 1908, p. 6). Yet he ventures now to write that in the Will of the Promised Messiah as there is no mention of Khilafat at all, and that the Promised Messiah as never gave his sanction to Khulafa’ accepting Bai‘at from Ahmadis. Now, when it came to the knowledge of some people of the Jama'at that Maulawi Muhammad Ali had not only played false with them, but had also ignored the Wills of the Promised Messiah as and the Khalifatul Masih, and had attempted to create a split in the Community and invited Ahmadis to signify their opinion on the