Life of Ahmad — Page 251
as THE PHARISEE OF BATALA 251 people began to take an active interest in religious matters. Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf, a D ill‘ad a r, tried to arrange a meeting between Muhammad Husain and Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra. He wrote a letter to Ahmad as for this purpose and also went to Jammu to request Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra personally to come to Lahore and meet Muhammad Husain so that he and his friends might have an opportunity of listening to both of them and thus forming an opinion on the claims of Ahmad as. Ahmad as wrote to Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra that there was no harm in going to Lahore for this purpose. The original suggestion of this meeting came from Sayyid Fate h Ali Shah, Deputy Collector of canals, a resident of Lahore. It appears that Ahmad as too was invited to this meeting; but he wrote to Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra that it would not be possible for him to go to Lahore in the cold and wet weather for reasons of health, particularly because he had already arranged to go to Ludhiana with his family. In his state of health it would have been really too much for him to go to Ludhiana and then travel back to Lahore for the proposed meeting, after which he would have to go to Ludhiana again. If, however, his attendance at the meeting was considered necessary he suggested that it should take place at some date in April. In the meantime the meeting should be well advertised. Invitations should be issued to leaders and learned and righteous men. If possible the Mub a hala asked for by his enemies, Miy a Ĕ Abdul H aq and Maulaw i Abdur Ra h m a n,