Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 292
A New Category of Testimony 285 them. They ask him if he is the same person in whom they had pinned high hopes of emerging as their leader. Now, they accuse him of not being worthy of even being their lowliest slave, let alone their most revered leader. Another point to be observed is that no person can right from childhood entertain the ambition that one day, at the age of forty or thereabouts, he would claim Prophethood. In view of this ambition he could not have hypocritically posed to be pious throughout his life. It is simply impossible. If this category of testimony is applied to the life of the Founder as of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, you would draw exactly the same inference as you could draw while applying this principle to the life of all other Prophets as. You can examine the life of the Promised Messiah as before his claim, you would inevitably draw the conclusion that he was becoming progressively more popular. Among closer circles in Qadian, the Hindus observed him from near. They saw his childhood, his early youth and decline of that youth until he stepped into the domain of old age. Likewise, the Sikhs, the atheists and the Christians also observed him. Those who knew him personally, whether they were rich or poor people, all saw him closely. All the testimonies you can gather will be found to be testifying to his truth and praising him for his excellent conduct throughout this period. None of the testimonies raised an accusing