Life of Ahmad — Page 375
as MUBAHALA WITH ABDUL H AQ 375 occasion and the particular parties concerned. One thing is certain: the Divine judgment is not mechanical. God deals with conscious, sentient beings as they deserve and He alone is the best Judge. After the Mub a hala prayer Maulaw i Muhammad Ya‘q u b, 73 and Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf, who were respected very much by the Ghazna v i family, openly declared before a large number of people that Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi had had a vision in which he had seen the light of God descend upon Qadian, of which his children were deprived. This public declaration of two witnesses was the immediate blow which Abdul H aq received as a result of the Mub a hala. But the sentimental attitude adopted by Ahmad as towards Abdul H aq coloured the Mub a hala right through. He did not even refer to it afterwards until Abdul H aq came out with a leaflet 74 in a vain attempt to show that God had blessed him. He referred to his marriage with his own brother’s widow. Ahmad as , therefore, pointed out to him that there was nothing blissful in his marriage with the old woman, rather it was his brother’s death which was noteworthy. On the other hand Ahmad as , instead of being cursed by God, 73 Sh. N u r Ahmad, an eye-witness, says in his booklet, N u r Ahmad , p. 32, that Muhammad Ya‘q u b fell at Ahmad’s as feet crying and requested him to accept his Bai‘at. 74 In answer to the attacks made by Abdul H aq, Ahmad as wrote a booklet (58 pages) about the middle of 1900 which was entitled Tu h fa’-e- Ghaznaviyya. It was printed (700 copies) at the D iy a’ ul Islam Press and published in October 1902, priced at four annas.