Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 289

289 principles of Islam, and the enterprise therefore deserved the financial support of the entire body of Muslims and all should contribute to this good work. (It may be noted that during the earlier days of his stay in England, Khwaja Sahib took care to keep everybody in the dark regarding the nature of the work he was doing). At the time Khwaja Sahib reached England the Balkan War was in progress. He published a tract in connection with that war in which after quoting a revelation of the Promised Messiah as regarding Turkey: i. e. : "Turkey has been defeated in a land hard by, but soon they will be victorious after their defeat", he drew the attention of the Turks to the advent of the Promised Messiah as. The news of the publication of this tract by Khwaja Sahib pleased Ahmadis, who thought that at last Khwaja Sahib had returned to the right path. But in the meantime, the conversion of a few Englishmen to Islam brought to Khwaja Sahib the support of the general body of non-Ahmadi Muslims, but they gave him to understand that the support would be withdrawn in case he made any mention of the Ahmadiyya Movement in the course of his