Truth Prevails — Page 11
( 11 ) “In the April 1911 issue of Tashhiz-ul-Azhan , Mahmud Ahmad wrote an article under a title translated as: ‘Muslim is he who accepts all the Mojaddids ’ (appointed by God). In this article Mirza Mahmud Ahmad writes: “So not only that person who does not call the Promised Messiah (Mirza Ghulam Ahmad) a Kafir (unbeliever) but does not accept his claim to be the Promised Messiah, has been declared a Kafir (unbeliever), but even that person also, who secretly considers the Promised Messiah as true in his claim and even does not openly deny it but is reluctant to give a pledge ( baiat ), has been shown as a Kafir. ” This is the first change Mirza Mahmud Ahmad made in his beliefs. ” This quotation indicates that Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad did not invent his belief in 1914 in the days of his Khilafat, that one who denied the Promised Messiah was a kafir. Instead, even in 1911, when Hazrat Maulvi Nuruddin was the Khalifa this was the belief of Mirza Mahmud Ahmad; and this article was published in the Tashhizul Azhan with the permission of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I. Had this belief been wrong in the eyes of Khalifatul Masih, he would have stopped Mirza Mahmud Ahmad from putting the article into print. That Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I, allowed it to be printed and published after he had read it himself, it constitutes full and firm proof that he himself, as well, held the same view. Further on, Mr. Faruqi writes: “When Mirza Mahmud Ahmad declared the non-Ahmadies as Kafir he was questioned that since only a person who denies a Prophet can be called a kafir , then does Mirza Mahmud Ahmad regard the Promised Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a Prophet, on this Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, contrary to all his previous writings, declared that the Promised Messiah was a prophet. This was the second change that Mirza Mahmud Ahmad made in his beliefs. ” (Page 51) So even in Mr. Faruqi’s own eyes, as early as 1911, Mirza Mahmud Ahmad held the view that the Promised Messiah was Prophet; and Mr. Faruqi’s stand that he invented this belief in 1914, after he had been elected Khalifa, to succeed Hazrat Maulvi Nuruddin, Khalifatul Masih I, this stand is not only baseless, it is also contradicted by Mr. Faruqi himself. Some more differences between Maulvi Mohammad Ali and the Promised Messiah Maulvi Mohammad Ali, President of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-i- Islam and the Amir of the Lahore Section of Ahmadies after he had repeatedly written that the Promised Messiah was a Nabi , not only did he turn back on