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( vii ) Mr. Faruqi, for his book, has selected “Truth Triumps” as the title. He should now be in a position to see what kind of victory he is gaining against us, except that as the Promised Messiah has remarked in regard to many of his opponents that their foul mouth and shameless, abusive language they look upon as victory. (b) Maulvi Abulhasan Ali Nadwi, Nazim Darul-ulum Nadwatul-Ulama, Lucknow, writes: “The Qadian, now Rabwah, Section of the Ahmadiyya Movement, of which the present Head is the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud, takes its basic stand on the belief that the Founder of the Movement was a Prophet. They maintain this stand with clearness, and a steadfast loyalty to the idea. Without doubt, this Section has plain and positive position, to which they stick with courage and strength of the moral fibre. Nor is there any room for doubt that they represent the true teaching of the Founder of the Movement. The position taken up by the Lahore Section, however, is strange, not so easy to grasp. One who happens to have read the works of Mirza Saheb finds that, without any shade of ambiguity, he claims he is a Prophet whose rejection involves kufr , plain and simple. ( Qadianiat , page 200-201) (c) A well known European Orientalist, Professor H. A. R. Gibb, formerly of Oxford University, writes: “After the death of his (founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement) first Khalifa or Successor in 1914, the Ahmadiyya also split into two sections. The original or Qadiani branch maintained the founder’s claim to prophethood, and continued to recognise a Khalifa; the seceders, or Lahore Party, discarded both and formed themselves into a ‘Society for the Propagation of Islam’ under a new head. The Lahore branch subsequently endeavoured to become reconciled with orthodox Sunnism, though the Ulama still regard them with some suspicion. ” (Mohammadanism, second edition, page 187) (d) The Siyasat wrote: “The statement on the part of the Lahore Section, that they hold the non-Ahmadi Muslims to be Muslims, not kafirs , appears to be hypocrisy, which Muslims should take care always to bear in mind. ” ( Siyasat, February 19, 1935) (e) “The cunning group of the Lahore Section of Ahmadies are in no way behind the Ahmadies of the Qadian Section in holding and saying, that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a Prophet; and where you find them telling the general Muslims that they look upon the Founder of the Movement only as a Mohaddath and a Mojaddid, a very pious learned Muslim, not as Prophet, they are only trying to deceive, nothing more. ” ( Ehsan , February 25, 1935)