Truth About the Split — Page 169
169 (Sd), Mehr Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla, at present resident of Qadian. From this evidence it would appear that the observation made by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra did not refer to the question of Kufr and Islam as such. It referred rather to the general complaint of inconsistency in his writings—that he sometimes called non-Ahmadis Muslims and at other times kuffar. It was about this complaint that he said, that it arose from a mistaken view of his writings, that there was a general failure to understand their proper sense, that the inconsistency was merely imaginary and that the misunderstanding was so common in the Community that even I had not escaped its influence. These observations of Khalifatul Masih I ra were indeed well founded and as a matter of fact they still hold true. I have just observed that it is difficult to understand how Khalifatul Masih ra , I endorsed the article by Khwaja Sahib after having certified the correctness of views set forth in my article. The only possible explanation of the action lies in supposing that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra if he at all read the article by Khwaja Kamaluddin, did not on account of the ambiguity of its language, get at its real intention. He was, therefore, quite justified in remarking that even I had failed to understand the inconsistency. As a