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233 mind, and began to pray to God that He should guide me to the truth. The day gradually came near when replies to the questions had to be submitted to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. I wrote down whatever I could think of at the time, on the subject, and made over my reply to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra. But still my heart was not at rest. I longed that God should Himself show me the way. God is my witness how sore and trying those days proved to me. I spent days and nights in sorrow and grief, fearing lest I should commit a mistake and displease my Master. But in spite of my anguish and restlessness, no kind of light came to me from God. The Grave Day: 31 st January 1909 At last came the night on the morrow of which the appointed meeting was to have been held. People gathered from all sides and their faces showed they were fully alive to the momentous nature of the day that was to dawn on the morrow. It appeared that every effort had been made to convince the people who came from outside that the proper representative of the Promised Messiah as was none other than the Anjuman and that the Khalifa was simply to accept the Bai‘at. All along their journey to Qadian, special efforts had been made to convince them that the