Truth About the Split — Page 251
251 commands by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra the records of the Anjuman began to use a new technique. It was not entered as command by the Khalifa but merely as a recommendation by the President accepted by the members. What was intended by this course of action was that the records of the Anjuman might not prove that this body ever took orders from the Khalifa. After the death of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , there was an attempt on just these lines to mislead the Community, which, however, did not favour the attempt. It had therefore to be given up. It is in consequence of this record that these men now avoid any discussion of the question of Khilafat, fearing lest the people should have the memory of those days revived, and lest recollection of their past intrigues should make people doubt their present integrity. In short, the policy they adopted was that while they complied with all the behests of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , they carefully avoided using the term Khalifa and used instead the term President. But God wanted to expose them. Accordingly it happened that Hakim Fadl Din Sahib, a very sincere Ahmadi and one of the oldest members of the Community made a will giving away his properties for the purpose of the propagation of Islam. The properties included a certain house which the Anjuman resolved to dispose