Life of Ahmad — Page 160
ADDRESSES THE A RYA SAM A J as 160 N u r, Amritsar, on July 27th, 1886, in which Ahmad as was threatened with murder within three years. 34 On December 3rd, 1886, an anonymous letter was sent unstamped to Ahmad as , which definitely warned him of an intention to murder him. This is enough to show that the Sam a j had nothing better to say. Ahmad as , would not, however, be dragged into abuse. He would not retaliate. The matter was beneath his notice and, from the intellectual point of view, no reply was needed; but, as silence would further embolden his enemies and the public might have been misled, Ahmad as took the opportunity of further exposing the scriptures of the A rya Sam a j. Sha h na’-e- H aq By April 1887, he had written and published Sha h na’-e- H aq (priced Rs. 12, Riy ad -e-Hind Press). For this he had to go to Amritsar, where he stayed at the house of Munshi Muhammad Umar, Katra Mah a n Singh. In this book he corrected the mis-statements of his enemies. They had really published a pack of lies—Ahmad as , according to them, was heavily in debt and reduced to straitened circumstances; he was unacquainted with the A rya scriptures, and was out only to make money. Ahmad as further pointed out that the proper course for the Sam a j was to publish authorised translation of the Vedas, so that the world 34 On page 501 of the Kulliy a t A rya Mus a fir Pt. Lekhr a m says in his Ishtih a r in 1886 that Ahmad as would be finished within three years and his progeny would be no more.