Truth About the Split — Page 371
371 according to the Paigham-e-Sulh , 2,500 people who were present, more than half were those who had been in the company of the Promised Messiah as and Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. Of the Muhajirin at Qadian whose number was not less than three or four hundred, only four or five held back. Apparently, according to the Paigham-e-Sulh , not one of them had been in the company of the Promised Messiah as and Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. Dr. Mirza Ya‘qub Baig, Secretary Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at-e-Islam, Lahore, went even further. He wrote in the Akhbar-e- ‘Am that a majority of those present on the occasion did not even know who had been elected Khalifa. When notice was taken of this glaring falsehood Dr. Mirza Ya‘qub Baig, the author of this report wrote in the Paigham of April 2, that what he meant was that of the "enlightened" members present, the majority did not enter into my Bai‘at. This epithet of "enlightened" is so conveniently vague that what the doctor could mean by it must necessarily remain a mystery to others. For, it is open to everybody to say that only those who agree with him are enlightened and the others not. If, however, any reasonable criteria are to be applied to that expression than I can well say that not only a considerable number but a preponderating majority of those present entered into