Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 740
740 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Again, the same issue says: Mirza is an impostor and a liar. Members of the community of Mirza are evildoers and rogues. In short, every single issue of their paper has been full of filthy abuse. I beseeched God a number of times that He may destroy the people who run this newspaper and eliminate this mischief. As a result, it was dis- closed to me a number of times that God Almighty would root them out. Most disturbing to me was that since these people lived in Qadian, their lies were taken as truth owing to their proximity to me. In fact, with the sole intent to deceive, they themselves published in the news- paper dated 1 March 1907: I We have. . . for the last fifteen years, constantly lived with him in the same town and deeply reflected upon his circumstances subsequent to which we discovered this man to actually be a pretender, selfish, self-indulgent, and abusive etc. Thus, it is quite clear that those people, after claiming a period of neigh- bourhood extending over fifteen years, declare that this man is in fact a pretender and an impostor. One can only imagine how the [false] testi- of these people can mislead others. Again, the same paper writes: mony During this period we have not witnessed any Sign, but we have seen that every day he fabricates false revelations and is an incomparable fool. So, this was the sole reason why I had to pray against them. Finally, I wrote a book entitled Qadian kei Arya aur Hamm ['Ahmadis and the Aryas of Qadian'] the summary of which is that from among the Āryas of Qadian there are two persons, one named Sharampat and the other Malāwāmal, both of whom have been coming to me over a long period of