Truth About the Split — Page 254
254 fact I stood alone—and the resolution was passed accordingly. "When the matter came to the knowledge of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , he summoned them and asked for an explanation. They replied that the decision had been reached by common consent and mentioned me by name among those who were present at the meeting. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra then sent for me. When I went to him the other members were already with him. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra exclaimed, "Well Miya ń , how comes it that my explicit commands are thus openly disregarded?" I said, "I have not disobeyed any commands. " He said, "In this matter I had given certain orders, then how was it that you acted against them?" I replied, "The members present here will bear witness that I gave them explicitly to understand that in this matter you did not approve of the decision proposed by them and that they ought not to persist in it, and that your letter signified not permission but displeasure. " Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , thereupon, turned to those members and remarked, "Mark! you call him a stripling, yet a stripling understood the purport of my letter and you did not. " He added many other words of admonition to the effect that virtue lay in obedience, and that they should change their ways or else they would be cut off from the blessings of God. Upon this