Truth About the Split — Page 230
230 however, had yet entered my mind. The Community had become divided into two rival camps. One was endeavouring to convince the rank and file that the proper successor of the Promised Messiah as appointed by the Promised Messiah as himself was the Sadr Anjuman. The other opposed this view and held to the terms of their Bai‘at. All this time, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , had no knowledge of these discussions, and I too was quite unaware of them. At last, Mir Muhammad Ishaq submitted in writing certain questions to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra and requested that light might be thrown on the subject of Khilafat. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra sent the questions to Maulawi Muhammad Ali for reply. The reply which Maulawi Sahib wrote proved amazing to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. For, in that reply the status of the Khalifa had been so far reduced as to leave him little else to do with the Community save to accept the Bai‘at from new entrants into the Community. Upon this Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra ordered that a large number of copies of the questions should be made, and that these should be circulated in the Community with a request for reply. He also appointed a date (31st of January, 1909) when representatives of the Community from different centres were asked to assemble at Qadian for the purpose of a conference. I