Truth About the Split — Page 68
68 arguments which were given against the novel beliefs which I was teaching and, being ignorant, they thought that my teachings were not different from those of the Promised Messiah as. These are the eleven points raised by Maulawi Muhammad Ali in describing the history of the dissensions. Before entering upon a discussion of the merits of the beliefs which divide us, I wish to deal with these points in order to make it clear to the readers, unacquainted with these matters how far our opponents have been regardful of truth and facts. Was Zahiruddin the Originator of Ahmadiyya Dissensions? In describing the history of the dissensions, the first misstatement made by Maulawi Muhammad Ali is that the disputed beliefs had their origin in one M. Zahiruddin who in April 1911 wrote a book named Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur and thus laid the foundation of the belief in the Nubuwwat (prophethood) of the Promised Messiah as. I wish to point out that in making this statement Maulawi Muhammad Ali has done a plain violence to truth. Muhammad Zahiruddin is too small a person to be the author of the belief in the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. Was he present with the Hoy Prophet sa when the latter said