Truth About the Split — Page 71
71 the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as and explicitly called him by the name of Nabi. On page 10 of that issue, writing about the Promised Messiah as and addressing the people of the world in general I wrote: "Do you think that because you belong to a great nation or because you possess gold and jewels, or because you have a large following, or because you are a millionaire or a king or a scholar or head of a pious foundation or a fakir—that there is, therefore, no need for you to obey this Rasul ?" Again in the same article on page 11 of that issue I wrote: "Only a few have accepted him, most have rejected him. This has been the Divine rule in the case of all previous Ambiya ’; and the same has been the case now. " Similarly on page 8, I wrote: "In short, every nation has been expecting a Nabi and the time assigned for his advent is the one we are now in, Our beloved Prophet Muhammad sa mentioned certain signs which were to mark the advent of this Nabi and in other ways made it easy for us to recognise him. Such predictions go to prove how high and great the rank is of our Prophet. " Similarly on pages 5 and 6, I wrote: "We are now to see whether or not there is any need for a Nabi to appear in this age, and whether we should call this age a good or an evil one. So far as can be seen, no age of the world has exceeded the