Truth About the Split — Page 195
195 Yet a third doctrine, alleged to have been newly promulgated by me, is my belief that the Promised Messiah as is the object of the prophecy relating to Ahmad which occurs in Chapter Al-Saff of the Holy Quran. Whatever may be the merit of this belief of mine, it was promulgated long before Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan took the oath of Bai‘at ; and even after its publication the said Maulawi Sahib remained for a long time on friendly relations with me. It was, in fact, during the lifetime of Khalifatul Masih I, that 1 wrote an article on the subject of the prophecy relating to Ahmad; only, it could not be shown to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. My friend Qazi Zahuruddin Akmal published the article in the Tashhidhul Adhhan soon after I became Khalifa, and it was no less than two years after its publication that Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan announced his revocation of the Bai‘at. During all this time he consistently supported me and my party, and opposed Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his coadjutors. Thus, it would appear that even this belief could not be the real ground for his revocation of the Bai‘at. Before finishing this point, I wish to cite one written testimony from the pen of Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan himself which shows that all the three doctrines had met with his entire approval, that