Truth About the Split — Page 141
141 of it. I am, therefore, not in a position to publish the article, and take this opportunity to request other friends also to write no more on the question, which may, henceforth, be considered as finally decided. In case, however, you consider it improper that such an announcement should be made, I shall refrain from doing so. It will but add one more reproach to where there already are so many. MAHMUD. " In reply to the above, Hadrat KhalifatuI Masih I ra , wrote the following words on the margin of the letter. (The original letter together with Hadrat Khalifatul Masih’s ra reply are still with me), "My dear, I have now marked the proper places. I have no disagreement regarding the main purport of the article—none whatever. But you see, even one commissioned by God, who would be justified by virtue of his commission to speak with some degree of severity, has been commanded: