Truth About the Split — Page 317
317 opportunity to refute publicly the doctrines which Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his partisans had so long been promulgating in secret. And God be thanked, the whole of their intrigue was now exposed to the light of day. After the publication of these tracts everything was quiet for some time. The manager of the Paigham-e-Sulh and Babu Manzur Ilahi had to sue for Hadrat Khalifatul Masih’s pardon and the whole affair seemed to have closed. But these people did not abandon their plans. Khwaja Kamaluddin now asked for permission to offer prayers behind non-Ahmadi Muslims, pleading as his ground the special circumstances of England. According to him the people there knew nothing about the Ahmadiyya Movement, and it was not desirable to acquaint them with differences among different sects which prevailed in Islam. At length, observing how weak Khwaja Sahib was in his faith, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra granted him the permission on which he was so keen. The first use Khwaja Sahib made of the permission was to pray behind Maulawi Zafar Ali Khan, the well-known editor of the Zami ń dar , one of the bitterest enemies of the Ahmadiyya Movement and its most foul-mouthed detractor. Apparently. Khwaja Sahib attributed to the soil of England the