Truth About the Split — Page 366
366 is the plain truth might be seen from the fact that only six years before, he had made a public announcement to the following effect: "Agreeably to the commands of the Promised Messiah as , contained in the book Al-Wasiyyat , we Ahmadis, whose signatures are appended below, with perfect sincerity of heart agree that all the present members of the Ahmadi Jama'at, as well as all those who in future may seek admission into it, should in the name of Ahmad pledge their Bai‘at on the hand of Hadrat Haji Maulawi Hakim Nuruddin Sahib, the First of the Muhajirin , the most eminent amongst us in learning and piety, and the loyalist and the oldest Companion of our Imam, one whose example was held up before us by our Imam as a model for all of us, as in the couplet: 'How well had it been if every one of this community had been a Nuruddin. So would it have been indeed, had every heart been filled with the Nur (light) of certainty. ' The commands of Hadrat Maulawi Sahib, in future, should be for us as the commands of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as ". This announcement was published over the signature of a large number of the leading members of the Community. Maulawi Muhammad Ali was one of the signatories. The draft of the announcement which