A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 44
44 A critical Review of the Pamphlet—‘f a te h -e-Qadian’ A few days ago, I saw your holiness in my dream in which you congratulated me and gave me some sweets and disclosed two things which were on my mind. In the same dream, I said that I was convinced that you are the recipient of visions. God knows the real facts. I am still unable to understand some matters, which is why I remain undecided, though I believe in your goodness and piety. The other day I shed tears as I read a few lines of a poem in Persian and a few lines of one in Urdu in the first pages of your book Surmah Chashm-e- A ryah and I thought that one can never find such moving feeling and pain in the writings of liars. Yesterday, I received a registered letter, concerning P i r Golarhv i ’s 23 book Saif-e-Chishtiy a ’ i , from Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m, through a dear friend of mine, Mi an Shah a bud-D i n, who is a student. I had also told Mi an Shah a bud-D i n that most of P i r Meher ‘Al i ’s book comprised of the notes of the late Maulav i Muhammad H asan, which he made in the margins of the books I‘j a zul-Mas ih and Shams-e-B a zighah , to record his thoughts. P i r Meher ‘Al i had borrowed the two books from me (which have now been returned). On comparison, we found the notes word for word copied into his book. This is an extreme example of pilfering, that he copied the thoughts of a dead person and attributed them to himself, without mentioning the original author. How strange it is that some of the faults that he attributes to your book, are to be found in his own book. Since both books are now in the possession of Maulav i Muhammad H asan’s 23 Referring to P i r Meher ‘Al i Sh a h. [Publishers]