Arba'in — Page 162
162 happened now. What kind of H akam would he be who agrees with everything you say and rejects nothing? Do not wrong your souls, and do not look contemptuously at this Movement which has been established by God for your reformation. Rest assured, if this enterprise had been of man, and had a Hidden Hand not been supporting it, then this Movement would have been decimated a long time ago, and a forger of falsehood like this would have been destroyed so quickly that by now even his bones would not be found! So take another look at your cam- paign of opposition—at the very least, just consider the possibil- ity of an oversight and that perhaps this fight of yours is with God. And why do you accuse me of squandering the money for Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya ? 1 ٭ If you have any right over me that you 1. ٭ Munsh i Il a h i Bakhsh has filled his book ‘As a’ -e-M u s a with such filth of false accusations, calumnies, and incorrect reports that it is as if it is a sewer filled with stinking mud or a latrine filled with feces! And leaving the fear of God aside, he has attacked my honour like a great enemy by fabricating lies about me. He must realize that he has done nothing good. And all he has written is nothing more than the kinds of abuses that were hurled upon Hadrat M u s a [Moses] and Hadrat Mas ih [Jesus], and our master, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Sadly, he did not care at all about the verse: ٌلْيَو ِّلُكِّل ٍةَزَمُه ِةَزَمُّل۰۰ [Woe to every backbiter, slanderer— S u rah al-Humazah, 104:2], and the warning—‘Woe to every slanderer’ contained therein. Similarly, he did not care at all about اَل ُفْقَت اَم َسْيَل َكَل ٖهِب ٌمْلِع [Follow not that of which thou hast no knowledge— S u rah Ban i Isr a’i l, 17:37]. He repeatedly writes that I have assured him that I would not file a case against him in any court of law run by men for his having fabricated lies. So I say to him that not only will I not file any case against him in any human court, but also I will not file any case in the Court of God. However, as he has falsely and shamelessly accused me of sins that I have never committed, I do not believe that I would die before God Almighty has established my innocence of the false charges that are levelled against