Truth About the Split — Page 66
66 Imams, though in the pilgrimage which I performed in 1912, I myself said prayers in congregation behind a non-Ahmadi Imam and so did all the Ahmadis who performed the pilgrimage at that time. When the news of the renewal of the question reached the Khalifa, being seriously ill himself, he asked Maulawi Muhammad Ali to enlighten the Ahmadiyya Community on this question and gave him some notes regarding the same. (7) He even warned me (the present writer) that I had not realised the true significance of the question of Kufr and Islam. (8) Accordingly Maulawi Muhammad Ali wrote a pamphlet and read it out to the Khalifatul Masih who approved of views expressed therein. This pamphlet, however, although written in the lifetime of Khalifatul Masih I ra could not be published before his death. (9) People had accepted me (the present writer) as their Khalifa under a misconception and now many of them were openly expressing their aversion to my doctrines. Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan of Amroha, the oldest and the most learned living companion of the Promised Messiah as , was one of the adherents of the present writer at the time of the dissension of March 1914, but in 1916 he published a handbill declaring that I was not fit for the position to which I had been elected, as I was misleading the