Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 256
256 which Islam has already suffered, but must. bring it still lower and subject it to yet more disgrace. These men are a reproach to Islam. But God now wills that Islam should not be branded with reproaches and remain under a cloud any more. It is al- ready so distressing to find that its opponents who have not taken the trouble to investigate matters for themselves, have it impres- sed upon their minds that Islam has from its very beginning been employing the sword to add to its numbers. It is high time that all these base charges should be cleared from the face of Islam. If the Maulvis unite to root up the evil from the midst of the Muhammadans, they shall have done a lasting good to, and conferred a blessing upon, their co-religionists. Such an exposition of the doctrines of Islam will further reveal the excellences and beauties of that religion to the general public, and the aversion which opponents have conceived on account of misconceptions shall be turned into admiration. The clouds of dust being cleared, they shall then be able to get theic light from that source of light. It is evident that no one can approach a bloody murderer. Every one fears him, woman and children tremble at his sight, and he looks like a mad man. An opponent of an alien religion cannot even pass a night with him lest he should choose to be a Gliazi at the cost of his life. Such events daily occur among the ignorant frontier people, and a single bloody deed is deemed sufficient to entitle the murderer to para- dise aud its manifold blessings. It is a sharne for Muharnrnadaus that alien races cannot safely live as their neighbours. They cannot trust them for a single moment and hardly expect any good in times of need. They do not deem themselves safe among them and shrink at the hidden belief of Ghaziism. An instance of this occurred lately here at Qadian. On the 20th of November last a European came here. Just at that time