Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 232
232 respect, including Hindus and people of other faiths. Everywhere he went he was greeted with reverence and even the Governor- General would receive him with courtesy. After the publication of the Fatwa, his status started to decline for no apparent reason. It ultimately reached the point where people of his own denom - ination, of which he had been a leader, abandoned him. I have myself seen him at a railway station carrying his heavy baggage under his arms and on his back and being shoved around by the crowd. No one cared who he was. People became so distrustful of him that tradesmen and shopkeepers refused to give him anything on credit and he had to make his purchases through other people. His private life was also in shambles. Some of his sons and wives refused to see him, while one of them left Islam and became an apostate. Before he died, this Maulaw i had lost every vestige of honour and self-respect. Indeed, every moment of his final days was a testimony to the truth of the verse: 6 ْلُق اْوُرْيِس يِف ِضْرَاْلا َّمُث اْوُرُظْنا َفْيَك َناَك ُةَبِقاَع َنْيِبِّذَكُمْلا۠ Say, ‘Go about in the earth, and see what was the end of those who treated the Prophets as liars. ’ Another example of the ignominy suffered by his enemies is that of Chir a gh D i n of Jummu. This man was among the followers of the Promised Messiah as , but later claimed that he had himself been sent to reform the world. He published many books and articles against the Promised Messiah as. Not being content with this, he prayed against the Promised Messiah as and intended to have this prayer published. The prayer was as follows: