Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 274
274 them members of the ruling family. After studying the books, Sahibzadah Sahib concluded that the Promised Messiah as was true in his claim and sent one of his disciples to Qadian to make further enquiries and authorized him to pledge allegiance to the Promised Messiah as on his behalf. The name of the disciple was Maulaw i Abdur Rahman. He travelled to Qadian and took the oath on his own and his mentor’s behalf. He then returned to Afghanistan with more books of the Promised Messiah as and decided to first visit Kabul where he could convey the message to the King. As soon as Maulaw i Abdur Rahman reached Kabul, some naive and mischievous individuals incited Amir Abdur Rahman Khan against him. They said that this man was an apostate who had abandoned Islam and deserved to be put to death. They coaxed the Amir into signing an edict of death and Maulaw i Abdur Rahman was killed in the cruelest manner. Abdur Rahman had loved his King so much that, instead of returning to his own home, he had come to convey to him the glad-tidings of the com - ing of the Messiah, but was rewarded by being strangled to death. This had been destined because God had foretold of it twenty years earlier. He thus became the first of the two men mentioned in the prophecy. A couple of years later, Sahibzadah Syed Abdul Latif left Afghanistan with the intention of performing the Hajj. Having already pledged allegiance to the Promised Messiah as , he decided to visit Qadian and from there to proceed to Mecca. However, when he came to Qadian, he found much more than he had learned from the books, and his pure heart was so drawn towards the Promised Messiah as that he gave up his intention of going for