Truth About the Split — Page 92
92 and submitted the same to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. It is to be hoped that every important aspect of the question will be found thoroughly discussed in that article. " It is a general rule with newspapers that they bear a date one day in advance of the actual date of publication, that is, they bear the date on which they are made over to the post office. Thus this number of The Badr must have been actually written on 15th April, 1911. The editor remarked that the article was already before Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , from which it would appear that the article had been submitted to the Khalifatul Masih ra sometime before the writing of this note. It may therefore be concluded that the article was written in March 1911. The question therefore arises—How could my article which was written in March 1911 and published in the following month, be the result of M. Zahiruddin’s book which was written in April 1911 and published in July 1911? And what can be said regarding the honesty of an author who, though fully aware of the respective dates of the two writings, does nevertheless, only in order to mislead and misguide people living in distant parts of the world, proceed to state that the work which was written one month after my last article on the subject of the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as and published three months