Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 231
231 moment that Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as announced his claim of being the Promised Messiah as , this same Maulaw i became infuriated. He thought that his review had caused Mirza Sahib as to become proud and to think excessively of himself. He went so far as to write that he was the one who had promoted Mirza Sahib as and that he would be the one to bring him down. With this intention, he travelled throughout India and had scores of clerics put their signatures to a Fatwa of kufr against the Promised Messiah as. This Fatwa said that not only was Mirza Sahib as k a fir but that his followers were also k a fir , that anyone who even talked to them was a k a fir , and that whoever did not consider them k a fir was also a k a fir. This Fatwa was printed and published throughout the country. Having done this, the Maulaw i thought that he had succeeded in demeaning the Promised Messiah as. Little did he know that in heaven angels were calling out: 4 َقاَحَف َنْيِذَّلاِب اْوُرِخَس ْمُهْنِم اَّم اْوُناَك ٖهِب َنْوُءِزْهَتْسَي۠ That which they mocked at encompassed those of them who scoffed. 5 َ ن ْ اَرَادَاِھَانَتَك َّ ْن ٌ م ي ِ ی ْ مُھ ِّ اِن I will humiliate him who seeks to humiliate you. Not a long time had passed after the publication of this Fatwa when the popularity of this Maulaw i started to wane. Previously, he had been held in such high esteem that when he passed through the streets of Lahore, everyone would stand up in