Life of Ahmad — Page 617
as POLICE HARASS AHMAD as 617 prosecuting me, but in its present form it is evidently unjustifiable and innocent; the matter in issue in this last-mentioned case would be what disgrace has the injured party received at the hands of the other. My opponents will never admit that the disgrace I suffered at their hands could ever be made the subject of criminal prosecution. From the condition, therefore, of the similarity of the disgrace contained in the revelation, it follows that the disgrace prophesied for the unjust party, is quite free of all taint of illegality or criminality. Had not the disgrace suffered by the unjust been similar to that suffered by the party in the right, the prophecy would have been left unfulfilled. I may add that the prophecy in question has been literally fulfilled (see my Ishtih a rs of the 3rd, 6th, and 7th January, 1899. Muhammad Husain and others of his party had given a fatwa of Kufr regarding me and called me by the name of Dajj a l (Antichrist), liar and impostor. Now he has received the same appellations from his brother-Maulaw i s. In a list of subjects printed in English, Muhammad Husain has stated that he regarded the traditions concerning the coming of Mahdi as incorrect and thereupon the Maulaw i s gave a fatwa that a person holding such a belief was a kafir, liar, Dajj a l and impostor. Thus the prophetic