Life of Ahmad — Page 576
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION as 576 and the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. The attacks that they make are absolutely unmerited. They are in fact indecent, scurrilous and outrageous in the extreme. This campaign of slander and vilification had been carried on by the Scribes and Pharisees for a number of years. These books were printed several times and widely circulated. They were taught in their schools; and the missionaries carried them practically to every house in the country. Attacks on Islam were openly made in the streets by the paid workers of the Mission and the idea seems to have been to crush Islam and cow the Muslim. Mullah Muhammad Bakhsh of Lahore wrote in a handbill: Gurg-e- kuhan Qadian i i. e. , 'deceitful old wolf'; Bharw a jorune jutiaya , i. e. , 'a procurer, who lives on the earnings of prostitutes and is beaten with shoes by his wife. ' Maulaw i Abdul H aq Ghaznavi of Amritsar wrote in a leaflet: R u Siy a h, badk a r, shai ta n, la‘nat i , sh a q i sarmad i , la‘nat k a t auq us kei galei k a h a r, la‘n ta‘n k a j u t us kai sar par, i. e. , 'black-faced, adulterous, devil, accursed, doomed for ever, having the collar of curse round his neck, and the shoe of imprecation on his head. '