Life of Ahmad — Page 611
as POLICE HARASS AHMAD as 611 Lahore and any other four to whom questions could be sent by post through a Commissioner. Khan Muhammad Ali Khan of Malerkotla; Nawab Khan Tahsildar of Malerkotla and Sayyid Hamid Shah of Sialkot, duly sent in their answers. In view of the hostile attitude of the police officials the following writings of Maulaw i Muhammad Husain were also brought on the file: 'And when he (Lekhr a m) was murdered, and in assigning the cause of his murder the public differed, the Hindus got an excuse for saying that the above mentioned revelation of the inspired murderer Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the cause of his murder and they published it as certain that their representative had been murdered by the Mirza to fulfil his own revelation. Some Hindus alleged that other Muhammadans were also involved in the conspiracy of murder and wrote that as the Muhammadans had been unsuccessful in the prosecution of the Pandit so they obtained a fatwa of his murder from the mullahs. ' ( Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 14). On page 16 of the same publication Maulaw i Muhammad Husain continued: 'To calm the excitement of the Hindus, which has passed due limits, I ask them—and this is a sure remedy for putting a stop to all disturbances—to give up the certainty that the murderer was a Muhammadan and to think also