The Heavenly Decree — Page 16
16 A sm a n i Fai s lah see him attack me with all kinds of abuse and slander. Having divined Mi yan Sahib’s purpose, Bat a law i exceeded all limits and cared not the least for the Quranic injunction: 10 He resorted to such filthy abuse as to excel even the language of the gutter. This pious man went so far as to call me filthy names before hundreds of people in Delhi’s main mosque. One of those who heard him and was present at the occasion was my employee Shaikh Ha mid ‘Al i , and there are others who have also testified to the same. Similarly, he told a gathering at Phalaur railway station that I would die the death of a dog. In his daily writings he has branded me a kafir and a Dajj a l. In a postcard, dated 11 th October 1891, which he addressed to Munsh i Fati h Muhammad, a functionary of the Jammu state, and which I have before me now, he wrote nothing but abuse. Is this the way to please God, or can it be the way of a gentleman to heap filthy abuse upon someone in open letters, or to take one’s fury to such an extreme as to employ unbecoming language in postcards which can be read by everyone? In this postcard of 11 th October, he has furiously written that I am in fact a kafir, a Dajj a l , an atheist and a liar. 10 Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public. (The Holy Quran, Al-Nis a ’ 4:149) [Publisher]