Truth About the Split — Page 160
160 after another invited us to functions arranged to welcome us. Among others, Miya ń Hamid Ali an old servant of the Promised Messiah as , who had attended upon him for 40 years invited us to tea. The guests included Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , Mir Nasir Nawab Sahib, Sayyid Abdul Muhyi Arab and myself. One gentleman, Hakim Muhammad Umar, put the question to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. The latter replied that he had never given any fatwa of that kind, that his permission was given only to such people as were weak and timorous. Such people, if they found themselves begird, by non-Ahmadis, might perform their prayers behind non-Ahmadis, and repeat their prayers when they returned to their places. Thanks to God that my action thus accorded both with the fatwa of the Promised Messiah as and with the views of the Khalifa of the day. " But here the question may be asked, why did I choose to carry out the supposed command of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , and perform Namaz behind non- Ahmadi Imams when there existed already a contrary fatwa of the Promised Messiah as ? The answer is that