Life of Ahmad

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431 CHAPTER 42 HIS ENEMY DIES CHILDLESS A convert from Hinduism to Islam, Sa‘dullah by name, was a school master in the Christian Mission School at Ludhiana. He always made Ahmad as the target of his foul vituperations to please his Christian masters. He issued a leaflet on September 16 th , 1894, to throw mud at Ahmad as in connection with A thim’s prophecy. He had already written a book entitled Shih a b-e-Th a qib , in which he had vainly prophecied that Ahmad as would die an ignominious death before his eyes and that his movement would come to an end, as there would be nobody to continue it. He wrote foul satirical poems in Urdu 104 and Persian against 104 I give here a few lines most reluctantly: i. e. 'Listen, O prophet of Qadian, accursed, shameless and Satan incarnate Just as a Qalandar makes his bear dance by repeating to it the words, "May thy grannie die", we are now determined to make you dance a similar dance. ' Again: