Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 63
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 63 become a proverb among his contemporaries, so that he had become known as AL-AMEEN , meaning the trustworthy. Even after the call came to him his opponents did not charge him with falsehood, but only rejected that which he had brought, as is said: 'We know well that what they say grieves thee sorely; for they charge not thee with falsehood but it is the Signs of Allah that the evil-doers reject' (6:34). In the case ofHazrat Ahmad also, in the revelation vouch- safed to him, God Almighty invited attention to the purity of his life from the very beginning as a proof of the truth of his claim, in the same words as had been employed in the Holy Quran with reference to the Holy Prophet, peace be on him. In his case also there is the testimony of both friends and opponents that he had led an absolutely pure and blameless life. For instance, Maulvi Muhammad Husain Sahib of Bat ala said: 'The author of Braheen Ahmadiyya, according to the experience and observation of his friends and opponents, adheres to the commandments of the Islamic law and leads a pious and truthful life, subject to his accountability to God' (Ishaatas-Sunnah, Vol. VII, NO. 9). Ahmad himself has invited attention to the purity of his life in the following words: You cannot point to any fault, imposture, falsehood or deceit in my previous life so that you could say that a person who was already given to falsehood and imposture has only added to his previous falsehoods another imposture. Which of you can criticize anything in my previous life? It is the grace of God that from the very beginning He established my life along the lines of righteous- ness. This is a proof for those who reflect [Tazkaratush Shahadatain, p. 62]. There is a whole mass of evidence in support of this statement of his, some of which has been mentioned earlier. It should be enough to mention here that throughout his life no one had ever' charged him with having uttered a falsehood. It is not to be imagined, therefore, that a person who was so wholly committed to the truth in all aspects of his life would