Truth About the Split — Page 296
296 The news was trumpeted to the world by Khwaja Sahib that through his efforts a British peer had accepted the faith of Islam. Immediately Khwaja Sahib became a popular idol, and from all sides a chorus of praise was raised for the service he had rendered to Islam. But to the people who knew that Lord Headley had been a Muslim for forty years, the whole affair caused considerable surprise, and they were astonished to find that Khwaja Sahib had been distorting the truth. But Khwaja Sahib was set on the one object of winning success and popularity for his mission. It did not matter whether the means employed by him were fair or foul. His announcement of the conversion of Lord Headley appears to me to have misled many of those Ahmadis who are now the followers of the Lahore party. The conversion seemed to them to be a sign of Divine assistance, indicating that therefore Khwaja Sahib must be right. In actual fact, of course, there was no Divine assistance but rather moral suicide on the part of Khwaja Sahib, and as long as the Ahmadiyya Movement lives and by the grace of God it will continue to live till the end of days, the misrepresentations and craft employed by Khwaja Sahib will ever be remembered with surprise and amazement.