Truth About the Split — Page 7
7 lands or that they will either be destroyed or compelled to renounce the truth they have accepted? No, God willing, this will never come to pass. Every man who possesses a grain of faith knows for certain that truth can never thus be overthrown. To one who has once accepted the truth all difficulties appear as nothing compared with the abandonment of truth. Would that the author of The Split had gained wisdom from the experience of the failures which have attended his activities in India! The number of men who have joined his following as a result of his endeavours for the last eight years, has been exceeded many times over by Ahmadis who have entered my Bai‘at and many of them are men, who even in worldly rank and position are in no way inferior to any of his followers; and then out of his followers also a very considerable number has left him and joined me. As in the case of the first Messiah, some of his followers, when they despaired of the conversion of the Israelites turned their attention to other nations, even so our opponents, when they despaired of success with that group of Ahmadis, who joined the Promised Messiah as during his lifetime, have since turned their attention to people in other lands. But