Truth About the Split — Page 91
91 Zahiruddin’s teachings and particularly a study of his book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur led me to a belief in the Nubuwwat of the Promised Messiah as. This book, on the admission of Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself, is the first book written by Zahiruddin on the subject of the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. Maulawi Muhammad Ali also admits that the writing of the book was completed in April 1911. On the last page of the book there is a note saying 'Finished writing, the 26th of April, 1911,' and on the same page there is another note 'This is by the publisher Chaudhary Barkat Ali' from which it appears that the book was sent to the press on some date subsequent to the 5th July 1911. On the other hand, it may be observed that my article on the subject of ' Kufr or Islam' of non- Ahmadis, which was in fact not the first but the last article on the above controversy (as has been already explained), was published in the Tashhidhul Adhhan of April 1911 and, as will appear from the following quotation from the Badr of 15th April 1911, had been written in March 1911. The learned editor of the Badr in one of his replies to Maulawi Sanaullah published in the Badr of 16th April 1911, while explaining his views regarding the status of non-Ahmadis, wrote as follows: "On this subject Hadrat Sahibzadah Mahmud Ahmad Sahib has already written an elaborate article