Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 326
326 It runs thus &UA &yj-. ) &>i JB i. e mj "Murder in 'disappointment and : his death was awful. " Both parts of this revelation are wonder- fully true of the murder- of Maulvi Abdul Latif,. because no one listened to his words and, therefore, he met disappointment, and' the people were awed at his death on account of his extraordinary perseverance and of. the signs which appeared at'his death, one of which was a severe outbreak of cholera. " "It should also be. borne in mind that the repeated promises of pardon, on- renunciation of faith were given to Maulvi Abdul Latif because of his eminent position and of the reverence shown to him in the country on account of his learning and sanctity. Such lenience to an ordinary prisoner is not ;to be looked for in the stern land of Kabul. It is -possible that the Amir himself should have been sorry to sentence to death one who was like a sun in the country, but in religious matters the Amir is no more, than a pupet in the hand of the. Maul vies; He feared the Maulvies on the one hand, and saw, on the other, that Maulvi Abdul Latif was blameless, and since he. had not the courage to oppose the judgment of the. Ulama-, he gave ex- pression to his feelings by repeatedly asking the Akkunzada to renounce his faith in the Promised Messiah. The reasons which weighed most with the present Amir as well as his late father in murdering such members of the Ahmadiyya sect as they could lay their hands on, was the doctrine of the illegality, of Jehad taught by it* The Amir and his councillors were "fully aware that I had written against Jehad in my writings and that ' my views were directly op- posed to theirs. The late Amir Abdul Rahman was himself the author of a pamphlet showing the necessity and legality of Jehad. Some Punjabis of the AJil-i-hadis sect who visited Kabul and saw the Amir, probably, informed him of the con-