Truth About the Split — Page 105
105 All this correspondence and the way in which it began has been set forth in Al-Hakam of 14th October 1912. It fully contradicts the version given by Maulawi Muhammad Ali that it was the Khalifa who began correspondence with Zahiruddin, after he had read Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur. It shows, on the contrary, that it was Zahiruddin who really began the correspondence, and that the origin of the correspondence did not lie in the fact of the Khalifa’s disapproval of the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur but in the fact of Zahiruddin reading a garbled version of the Khalifa’s speech at Lahore and his taking exception to it. It is therefore no small thing on the part of Maulawi Muhammad Ali that he should venture to distort facts published and known to the public, should in fact invent a new set of facts quite different from those already published, and then incorporate them in The Split. The third point relating to Zahiruddin, which Maulawi Muhammad Ali has mentioned is that after the correspondence an announcement was published by Khalifatul Masih I ra to the effect that "as Muhammad Zahiruddin was promulgating new doctrines he was not to be considered as having any connection with the Ahmadiyya Community. " As I have already said, this statement of Maulawi