Truth About the Split — Page 31
31 extracts also go to show that I and my party are opposed to him in such views. It will thus appear that the analogy which the author of The Spilt has sought to establish between my party and the followers of the first Messiah exists, if anywhere, in the party composed of the above mentioned gentleman and two or three others who share his views. As for ourselves, we believe in the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as in the same sense in which he himself claimed the title. In the notice named Eik Ghalati Ka Izala published by the Promised Messiah as , he says, "In all my writings wherein I have denied being a Nabi or a Rasul , I have done in the sense that I have not brought any new book, nor was I a new substantive Prophet. Nevertheless, as I had received spiritual blessing from my leader the Holy Prophet sa and been given his name, and been gifted by God with knowledge of future events. I was indeed a Rasul and Nabi though without a new law. I have never denied being a Nabi of the latter kind, and since it was in this sense that I was called a Nabi and Rasul by God, I do not even now deny being called Nabi and Rasul in such a sense". We call God to witness that it is exactly in this sense that we believe in the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as , and even our enemies, in spite of thousands of false charges which they are apt to bring