Truth About the Split — Page 182
182 The majority of the Jama'ats in centres outside held back through misunderstandings created by these very people. But God worked on my behalf and gradually gathered the whole Community to my side. It is wrong therefore to say that people entered my Bai‘at through any misconception. They continue still to enter and from December last up to now (March 1919), about 25 persons from among the followers of Maulawi Muhammad Ali have accepted me as the true Khalifa. All this has happened in spite of the fact that I have refrained from devoting any attention to my opponents who have been spending the bulk of their funds and energy against me. Wherever our men have gone to preach the truth of Ahmadiyyat, there their men have followed them in order to create an aversion in the public mind against us and often against Ahmadiyyat itself. If I, on my part, had cared to devote to these people even half the time which they have been wasting in their activities against us, then, by the grace of God, we could have had even larger results. It seems to us better, however, that our energy should be devoted to the propagation of Islam and the advance of Ahmadiyyat. Accordingly, all our lecturers are directed to work only among non- Ahmadis and non-Muslims. On the other hand, nearly all the lecturers of Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s party