The Green Announcement — Page 11
11 pletely fake and erroneous, and yet their faith in them does not waver, and they attribute these mistakes to errors of calculation rather than doubt the science of astrology. But despite adhering to such ridiculous beliefs, they do not hesitate to launch malicious attacks on Divine prophecies even though they contain no obvious errors. This, however, does not come as a surprise to us, for these Hindus are the enemies of Islam and falsehood and deception are the only weapons they can wield against us. What does surprise us is the condition of the Muslims who do not hesitate to utter such absurdities despite all their claims to righteousness and piety and despite professing to follow the teachings of Islam. Even if they had come across an announcement in which I had surmised that the deceased boy could be the Promised Reformer and blessed with a long life, their knowledge and understanding of religion should have led them to conclude that such errors of judgement are not ob- jectionable, because they are occasionally made by theologians as well as mystics, and even the greatest of Prophets are not immune from such errors. In this case, however, I never issued such an announcement. The oppo- nents have acted in haste, like the proverbial traveller who removed his shoes miles before catching sight of the river. It should be borne in mind that these few sentences about the condition of the Muslims have been written out of sympathy for them, so that they may discard their errone- ous beliefs and reject ideas that are unfounded and have no basis in truth. Their doubts and misgivings regarding the death of Bashir Ahmad testify to their own lack of un-