Truth About the Split — Page 81
81 Zahiruddin’s book, and during the lifetime of the Promised Messiah as in my introductory article in the Tashhidhul Adhhan I had already declared the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as , and Maulawi Muhammad Ali had commended that very article and published a summary of the same in his own magazine The Review of Religions (Urdu edn), and Maulawi Sahib referred to my views as a miracle of the Promised Messiah as , and used the same as an argument against the opponents of the Movement. All these facts are sufficient to prove that at that time Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself believed that the Promised Messiah as was really a Nabi. Nor was the article the only one published by me. There were also others in which I mentioned the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. For example, one of my article was published in The Badr of 10th May 1906, which concluded with the following words: "For God’s sake take warning and bow down your heads in humility before Him, and supplicate His true Rasul saying (Oh Messiah! pray to God for our safety from the epidemic. )" (The Badr , 10th May 1906, page 8). Again, on page 10 of the Badr of 1st May, 1906, in my article entitled Al-Hakam and Watan there