Truth About the Split — Page 267
267 Mahmud Ahmad (the present writer) should be elected president. Thus ended the first of the two plans. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra separated himself from the Anjuman and in his place 1 was appointed president. It could no longer be said that orders of the Khalifa were carried out not because he was Khalifa but because he was President of the Anjuman. The other plan was defeated by Khwaja Sahib himself. As soon as he began to be popular he began to push his own personality to the front, and he was able to capture the attention of the people. Maulawi Muhammad Ali thus receded into the background, and his opinion no more carried the weight it formerly did. Towards the end of 1910, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra fell from his horse, and for some days he remained in a very precarious condition. He told Mirza Ya‘qub Baig, his medical attendant at the time, that he was not afraid of death and that he wanted to know if his condition was really dangerous. For, in that case he would like to dictate some instructions. But these people feared it might be against their interest for Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra to leave any instructions. They, therefore, assured Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra that his condition was not so dangerous, and that if his condition became critical they would give him timely