An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 364
364 Background During his visit to Jhelum in January 1903, in one of his sittings with his followers, the Promised Messiah as expressed the idea that one of these days he was planning to go to Lahore and deliver lectures, so that the people of Lahore could listen to the message from him personally and the doubts and misgivings created by misguided Maulav i s could be gently removed and the path of rectitude would be shown to them. In order to fulfil this mission, he first planned to visit Lahore in March but because of the cases brought against him by his opponents in Gurd a sp u r, he could go to Lahore only in August 1903. The Promised Messiah as delivered his first lecture on August 21, 1903, in which he gave the reasons why a religion was needed and also spoke on the truth of his mission. In the second lecture delivered on August 28, 1903, attended by about two thousand people, the Promised Messiah as again adduced powerful arguments in support of his advent as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi. The Book The fourth lecture which appeared in this book under the caption Lecture Lahore was delivered on September 3, 1903, at a place behind D a t a Ganj Bakhsh, known as “Mandwah Melah R a m. ” The misguided Maulav i s , true to their colour, did their best to prevent people from attending this lecture but when the carriage of the Promised Messiah as arrived at the venue of the meeting, people found themselves going towards the meeting and the lecture was heard by about ten to twelve thousand people. The topic of the lecture was “Islam and Other Religions of This Country. ”