Truth About the Split — Page 315
315 Replies to Anonymous Tracts. The distribution of the tracts among members of the Community, acted as a bombshell. The Community founded by the Promised Messiah as now realised the serious nature of their responsibility, and desired that a suitable reply should be written to the tracts. Fear of the disfavour of the Community and the displeasure of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra now induced the authorities of the Paigham-e-Sulh to publish a brief note disavowing the remarks, which had previously been published in that paper in support of the tracts. But the language used in the note was so equivocal that while, from one point of view, the note seemed to denounce the sentiments expressed in the tracts, from another point of view it seemed to lend support to those sentiments. Another group, however, was destined to make a proper rejoinder to the tracts. This was the Anjuman Ansarullah. As the writer of the tracts had made the Anjuman Ansarullah the special object of his attack and the Paigham-e-Sulh had also addressed its remarks to them, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , was pleased to entrust the Ansarullah the duty of replying to the tracts. The reply was published under the direction of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra in the form of two tracts. The first was named Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya , and was a