Life of Ahmad — Page 130
VISITS LUDHIANA & SANAUR as 130 evil were unhappy and uneasy. The Divine lustre that his face shed all round made the covetous scribes and blind pharisees extremely nervous about their own bread and butter. Referring to Ahmad’s as visit to Ludhiana, Maulaw i Muhammad Husain of Batala wrote in his periodical while reviewing the Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya that, as the Maulaw i s Abdul ‘Az i z and Muhammad, sons of Abdul Q a dir, were disloyal to the government (vide Ish a ‘atus-Sunna No. 10, Vol. 6), they could not like Ahmad as , who condemned all manner of sedition and rebellion. Another reason which exasperated and alarmed the Maulaw i s of Ludhiana, according to Maulaw i Muhammad Husain, was that they were collecting funds when the author of the Br a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya came to Ludhiana at the request of the Muslims of that town. Seeing his hallowing influence and the blissful lustre that streamed out from him, they felt attracted towards him and most of them offered to contribute towards the publication of his important and valuable book; and the result was that the Maulaw i s were deprived of their income. So they through the pages of the Akhb a r-e-‘ A m dated May10th, 1885 and explained that God does not cause people to fall into error. He has, on the other hand, provided for the spiritual progress of man by supplying him with two external incentives, one for good and the other for evil. Man has then been given discretion. He can choose one or the other. God has further strengthened the incentive for good by endowing man with reason, revelation and heavenly signs and then He has devised punishment to deter man from choosing the evil course.