Truth About the Split — Page 45
45 you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have hazarded their lives for the name of God, Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same thing by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from meats offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication, from which if you keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (The Acts 15). Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his party may now consider whether the line of action adopted by them is not the same as that followed by the early Christians. While on the one hand in order to win the goodwill of non-Ahmadis and to secure their cooperation they professed it as highly injurious to the interest of Islam even to mention the name of the Promised Messiah as in their speeches and writings, on the other, in order to placate non-Muslims they do not hesitate even to detract from the dignity of the Holy Prophet sa himself. For instance, it has been confessed by Khwaja Kamaluddin that once a person wrote to him saying that he approved of everything spoken by the Khwaja except that the latter attributed to the Holy Prophet sa a rank superior to that of Jesus as. Such an attitude, the writer said, did not commend itself to him, and was an