Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 131
131 have been possible for that other being to bring about that which had been decreed against by God. A man named Sa‘dullah, who was a teacher in the Mission School, Ludhiana, was a very bitter and foul-mouthed opponent of the Promised Messiah as. He used to write and publish poems and articles against the Promised Messiah as , full of such filthy abuse that no decent person would be able even to conceive of the obscenity of the language used by him. The Promised Messiah as himself had said that no other Prophet had been abused so much by any man as he had been abused by Sa‘dullah. He had repeatedly announced that the Promised Messiah as was an impostor and would be destroyed and that his prophecies concerning his chil- dren would not be fulfilled and that his end would be miserable. When his hostility and abuse had exceeded all bounds, and he became the means of preventing people from seeing the truth, the Promised Messiah as prayed to God to show a sign to this man. His prayer was heard, and as this man had turned his back upon the truth and had shut the gates of God’s mercy upon him- self, God decreed that he should die by the weapon which he had attempted to wield against the Promised Messiah as. Accordingly, the Promised Messiah as re- ceived this revelation concerning him: Inna sh a ni’aka huwal abtar , viz. , Thine enemy who says concerning thee that thou shalt die childless, shall himself be cut off and his line will become extinct. When this revelation was received by the Promised Messiah as , Sa‘dullah had a son about fourteen years of age, and he was himself in the prime of youth. There was no reason why he should