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157 criticising or denying the fatwa. When we believed that the authority of the Promised Messiah as is final, there was little need for me to find fault with anything contrary to the Promised Messiah’s as fatwa. Even assuming that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had actually issued a contrary fatwa, still, according to us, such a fatwa could not have formed part of our faith. Maulawi Muhammad Ali has charged me with having offered prayers—while on pilgrimage to Mecca—behind a non-Ahmadi Imam, and this, in accordance with a fatwa of Khalifatul Masih I ra. This is a misstatement which, in spite of his knowledge of the true facts, Maulawi Muhammad Ali continues to repeat. The facts are as follows. In the year 1912, I went on pilgrimage to Mecca in company with Sayyid Abdul Muhyi Arab, visiting Egypt on our way. My maternal grandfather, Mir Nasir Nawab Sahib, also went on pilgrimage the same year. He went to Mecca direct from Qadian. We met at Jaddah, and from there journeyed together to Mecca. On the very first day at Mecca, while we were circumambulating the Kaaba, time came for the evening prayers. I wished to withdraw, but our way was barred and the service had already commenced. Mir Nasir Nawab Sahib told me that Hadrat Khalifatul