Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 149

149 Such was my article which was twice read through by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , and corrected in several places in his own hand, and regarding the purport of which he remarked that he had no difference whatsoever. Now, after reading the above and after perusing those passages which I have quoted, is it possible for any intelligent person to imagine that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra could possibly take the article to say no more than that those who did not accept Hadrat Mirza Sahib were only deniers of Hadrat Mirza Sahib? The question now remains, how was it that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra at all put his signature to the incorrect version of the article given by Khwaja Kamaluddin? In answering this, we should remember in the first place that, in view of the circumstances described above, it is altogether impossible to conclude, from the mere fact of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra signing the announcement by Khwaja Sahib, that he disapproved of my article. This, because the written approval which Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra accorded to my article and the corrections he himself made in it still exist. Nor can it be supposed that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra misunderstood the purport of my article, because it was impossible even for a mere schoolboy to receive the article in the sense