Truth About the Split — Page 348
348 the point involved a religious principle, and could not, therefore, be sacrificed to any regard for personalities. The opposite side, it was urged had already pledged their Bai‘at to one Khalifa, and this proved that such pledging was at least permissible even according to them, and was not a sin. With our side, on the other hand, not to enter into Bai‘at with a Khalifa and thus to give up Khilafat itself, was a sin. If the party opposite was so insistent upon rejecting that which they regarded as permissible, how could they surrender a point and principle which they regarded as quite indispensable? 14th of March and a Tract by Maulawi Muhammad Ali As advised by me the day before, many Ahmadis had resolved to fast and even those who seldom offered the Tahajjud prayers, made up their minds to offer them this night. I was up at about two and began to get ready for the Tahajjud prayers. I was in the middle of my ablutions, when somebody put into my hand a tract which, he said, had been distributed all over the route to Ahmadis coming from outside. I looked at the tract and found that it had been written by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. In it, he had asked Ahmadis not to let the succession of Khulafa’