Truth About the Split — Page 220
220 transactions he exhibited many a sign of weakness of faith, but a reiteration of those signs would not be appropriate at this place. Suggestion to Convert The Review of Religions In 1905, a suggestion was made by The Watan that if The Review of Religions should refrain from making any mention of the Promised Messiah as , and devote itself solely to propagating the general principles of Islam, then it would be possible for the general body of Muslims outside the Ahmadiyya Community to support and subscribe to The Review. Khwaja Sahib at once consented to act on the suggestion, and proposed that The Review should have an appendix attached to it and in that appendix should be published matters connected specially with the Ahmadiyya Movement, the body of the magazine to contain only topics connected with the general principles of Islam. The proposal raised such a storm of protest that at last Khwaja Sahib had to give in and the whole idea had to be abandoned. But this proposal by Khwaja Sahib and Maulawi Muhammad Ali served to encourage one Dr. Abdul Hakim, who had already for some time been labouring under the influence of certain heterodox notions, to initiate