Life of Ahmad — Page 455
as GURU NANAK WAS A MUSLIM 455 class exclusiveness, the concremation of widows, the immurement of women, the use of wine or other intoxicants, tobacco smoking, slander, and pilgrimage to the sacred rivers and tanks of the Hindus. ' It is admitted that when Nanak died, Muslims and Hindus both claimed to conduct his funeral prayers. Muslims do not offer funeral prayers unless they are certain that the deceased was a Muslim. Therefore, this incident further confirms the fact that Nanak was a Muslim. Though Ahmad as had done a great service to the Sikhs by answering the objections levelled against their Founder by Sw a m i Day a nand, yet some of them were displeased and charged Ahmad as with insulting them by calling Guru Nanak a Muslim saint. Therefore Ahmad as thought it necessary to refute the allegation by declaring that he meant no slight but that he had only brought to light some fresh evidence which showed that Nanak was a Muslim at heart, which was rather a compliment to their Founder. He also reproduced a few pages of his book Sat Bachan as a specimen to show how the Christians also had attacked the Sikh religion and how he had defended the honour of its Founder. The leaflets were dated November 20th and 25th, 1895. Sardar Rajinder Singh published a pamphlet entitled Khabt i Qadiani K a ‘Il a j in which he made baseless attacks upon the Holy Founder sa of Islam and refused to believe that Guru Nanak was a Muslim. In