Truth About the Split — Page 10
10 few days before the death of Khalifatul Masih I ra , at a time when his condition was very precarious, wrote a tract containing his opinions on some points of controversy. But as he was afraid that if the matter came to the notice of Khalifatul Masih I ra his design would be undone, so with the utmost circumspection and cleverness, he had the tract printed and published in Lahore and did neither read it out to Khalifatul Masih I ra , nor inform him of its purport, nor consult him about its subject matter. This was contrary to the usual practice of Ahmadis who, as a rule always consulted and obtained the previous sanction of their Khalifa whenever any book or announcement was to be published on any controversial subject, or on any important issue. It was in accordance with this rule that Khwaja Kamaluddin submitted to Khalifatul Masih I ra , all his articles on the question of Kufr and Islam. Similarly before publishing anything on the subject of the Cawnpore Mosque disturbances, the authorities of the Paigham-e-Sulh of Lahore sent a special agent to Khalifatul Masih I ra to ascertain his views. It is of course another matter whether those views were also correctly reported later on, or not. The fact remains that a certain deference was paid to the Khalifa. But in the case of this tract Maulawi Muhammad Ali did not care to make even the barest