Life of Ahmad — Page 636
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 636 the circumstances stated below are taken into consideration, the Court will be convinced that the charge against me cannot be sustained. An intention on my part to cause a breach of the peace has been inferred from the fact that, in reply to the foul and abusive publications of Muhammad Husain Batalvi, Muhammad Bukhsh Jafar Zatalli and Abul Hasan Tibbati, I published a notice on November 21st, 1898, containing a prophecy that the unjust party would be disgraced within 13 months from December 15, 1898. From this the Court infers that the efforts of my disciples will be in the direction that the marks of Divine displeasure should be shown not against me but against my adversaries. This in the opinion of the Court is likely to cause a breach of the peace. I would submit, however, in refutation of this charge that this meaning cannot be attached to the words of my prophecy. All the revelations published in the said Ishtih a r are governed by the Arabic sentence ' Jaz a ’u Sayyi’atin Bimithlih a wa Tarhaquhum Dhillah ', which literally means that the reward of evil is disgrace similar to that received by the injured party, and any one well versed in the Arabic language would testify to the same. The disgrace prophesied, therefore, is not to be taken in a general sense, but in the particular sense of being similar to that brought by the