A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 5
i‘j a zul-Ma si h —A Miracle of the Promised Messiah as 5 I wrote to Maulav i N u rud-D i n regarding his request and the appreciation of my knowledge that he received through our friends. The gist of the letter is: I do not possess any expert knowledge and our friends must have praised me simply out of good faith. I further explained that Maulav i Muhammad Gh a z i would write to him upon his return, because he carried out the research on it. I often gave him unpublished papers to prepare for publication i. e. to collect and put them in some order and to print them. Maulav i N u rud-D i n thought I had denied being the author of the book since the compilation had been attributed to Maulav i Muhammad Gh a z i , as was the case. Sometimes the author and the publisher are the same and sometimes they are not. I had assigned the collation and ordering of the book to him for lack of time. Anyway, the aim that people should not be misled was fully achieved with the Grace of God. We learn daily of the popularity of the book through letters. We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed by the common folks. Sal a m. ( al- H akam , April 24, 1900, p. 7, col. 3) Publication of Letters by Hadrat Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m Hadrat Maulav i ‘Abdul Kar i m could not bear this obvious duplicity on the part of P i r Meher ‘Al i and duly published all the above letters in the newspaper al- H akam on April 24, 1900. He demanded again a reply to all the queries raised about the P i r’s book