Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 330
830. considered amounting to heresy. ,. and whether such diferencefc did not exist among the other Muslim sects, and whether they all with the exception of one deserved to be stoned; to death? - :. . :. ;'. "'. :-. ''. ' : -. : ' After the sentence, of death was; passed, Maulvi : Abdul JLatif was again called into the presence of the Amir and tol$ that the Maulvies. had adjudged him to be a. heretiCj. and that if he did not renounce his belief, he would be put to ;deatb. But he was not to be shaken by such, threats and he was willing 'to die. Every new ^expostulation: was rejected by him with greater firmness, -until the ^Amir knew it> for certain that nothing could tempt him to. give. up: his faith. He is alsq related to have said that he would/rise; again, after six days. ,1 think he, said so on the basis. of some Divine re- velation which he might have received at the. time, for at that time he had cut oS every connection with worl six^ days, and -befere;the Lord's day came, which was the seventh,; he would : braised; from. 'among. the dead. The Holy. Quran has also stated that the, martyrs are not left among the dead but are raised after their death. . Thus it. says :: ^/ ) j$ ^. &>. 1^^^' ^ *fe )J*1 ^ ) 'y* ) ' $ kJ&*- "And say. not of those. who. are slain in God >: s path that they are dead ; nay, they are living,". It was to this that Maulvi Abdul L. atif referred when, he spoke:. of rising after the sixth day. , I also saw a vision to. the. same eSect. about the same time. ,. 1 saw that a talj,. graceful : and green branch of a cypress tree was cut off from my garden, and held in a man's hand. . Some one said that it should be planted : near the plum tree already cut and re-grown in a land adjacent