Life of Ahmad — Page 448
448 CHAPTER 46 GURU NANAK WAS A MUSLIM One should imagine that the brutal treatment of Ahmad’s as forefathers by the Sikh chieftains in the dark days of the Punjab would have left a sting behind. But not so with Ahmad as. Sw a mi Day a nand, the Founder of the A rya Sam a j, had written offensively about Baba Nanak, the Founder of Sikhism, in his book Satyar a th Park a sh (Ajmer 1948, p. 356). He had declared Nanak to be a perfect ignoramus who posed as one learned in Sanskrit out of his vanity and conceit; Nanak was according to him, made out to be a saint by ignorant people only after his death. Being a champion of truth and fairness, Ahmad as took up the cudgels against Day a nand to protect the honour of Nanak, whose followers had either not read the book or taken no notice of it. So he began to write a book and announced it by a leaflet issued on September 9th, 1895. Sikhs are found in the Punjab, United Provinces, Sind, Jammu and Kashmir. Their number is estimated