Life of Ahmad — Page 274
THE PHARISEE OF BATALA as 274 Ahmad’s as paper and burst out in vile vituperation in an attempt to incite his friends to disorder. The public was already sick of this long and irrelevant controversy. Ahmad as , therefore, did not hand over his last paper to Muhammad Husain and thus the debate was terminated. There were about 300 persons who attended the last meeting, including local gentry and the editors of the Punjab Gazette , Sialkot, and the N u r Afsh a Ĕ , Ludhiana. But Muhammad Husain had the presumption to issue a leaflet 57 the very next day in which he blamed Ahmad as for violating the conditions of agreement and very cleverly appended the signatures of his own intimate friends in support of his vain assertions. It is evident that he did not succeed in getting the signatures of respectable and disinterested persons who were present, like Kh. Ahsan Shah, Hon. Magistrate of the town; M. Mir a Ĕ Bakhsh, accountant; Shahz a da Abdul Majid ra , Dr. Mustafa Ali, Kh. Muhammad Satt a r Shah, Kh. Abdul Q a dir, Master Char a gh D i n, Munshi Muhammad Q a sim, Master Q a dir Bakhsh, and Miy a Ĕ Shair Muhammad Khan. He declared that Ahmad as had fled from the meeting and in support of this he mentioned an incident which was a pure invention. He said that at the conclusion of the 57 Ahmad as issued a letter on August 1st, 1891, printed at the Dabdaba Iqbal Rabb i Press, Ludhiana. In this Ahmad as again invited Muhammad Husain to have a discussion with him on the real subject under dispute. He suggested that it should be held at a central place like Lahore. But Muhammad Husain did not find it convenient to accept this invitation.