Life of Ahmad — Page 607
as POLICE HARASS AHMAD as 607 prophecy made by Ahmad as. The D. C. (Mr. Dixon) fixed December 15th, 147 1898, as the date for the hearing of the case; and it was subsequently changed to January 5th, 1899. So after the morning prayers on the 4th Ahmad as ordered nine of his friends to go to Gurdaspur. Some of them went by rail while he himself went by palki the same day. Other friends and followers reached Gurdaspur from Ludhiana, Kapurthala, Amritsar, Lahore, Jammu and Simla; and there were in all about 100 men who offered the morning prayers with Ahmad as on the 5th. People asked him various religious questions after the prayers; and words of wisdom flowed from his lips wherever he was. He instructed them in knowledge, truth and love. He reached the court compound at about 10 o’clock, and waited till noon. The lawyer engaged by Maulaw i Muhammad Husain could not come that day and at his telegraphic request the hearing was postponed by Mr. J. M. Dowie to January 11th, 1899. The attitude of the magistrate appeared to be stiff. In a note he asked the 147 Ahmad as came to know of this case between December 10th, and 15th. He wrote and published a booklet entitled Kashful Ghi ta on December 27th, 1898, in which he addressed the Government in order to acquaint them with the peaceful principles and work of his movement. In this he also drew the attention of the authorities to the abuse and vituperation to which he was being subjected by Maulaw i Muhammad Husain and his friends. (See Ishtih a rs printed at the T a jul Hind Press, Takiya Sadhooan, Lahore, dated April 7th; May 26th; June 11th, 23rd, 26th; and August 20th, 1897. In this booklet Ahmad as offered to make a prophecy which would not have any good or bad affect upon any human being provided people were really prepared to test his truth thereby. A printed copy of the English translation of this booklet was later put on the court file.