Life of Ahmad — Page 646
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 646 put before the Maulaw i s 155 they declared the holder of it to be kafir and Dajj a l. Thus he became the recipient of the epithets which he had always given me and thus was my prophecy of November 21st fulfilled in its true and literal sense. I never made any attempt to get it fulfilled, but all that has been stated above happened in the ordinary course of things. When this double policy of Muhammad Husain came to my knowledge I became certain that they would never hesitate to call such a person a kafir and a Dajj a l , and I published the fatwa after they had written it. Had not Muhammad Husain himself adopted such a policy, I would not have done anything. Another point to which I humbly draw the attention of the Court is that my Ishtih a r of November 21st, 1898, instead of being likely to cause a breach of the peace was published with the object of preventing a breach of the peace. For a long time Muhammad Husain and his party had devoted their whole energy to abusing me in the grossest and most scurrilous 155 Ahmad as came to know of the secret publication of Muhammad Husain on December 27th, 1898, and he exposed him the same day. Then he prepared an Istift a’ and sent Dr. Muhammad Ismael Gurg a n i to the mullahs of Amritsar, Lahore and Delhi. He returned on Janurary 3rd, 1899, and the following Maulaw i s signed the fatwa: Abdul H aq Ghaznavi, Abdul Jabb a r Ghaznavi, Ghulam Ras u l, Ahmadullah, Ghulam Muhammad Bagw i , Abdullah Taunk i , Nadh i r Husain of Delhi, H ashmat Ali, Wa s iyyat Ali, Muhammad Shah, Muhammad Y u nus, Fate h Muhammad, Abdul Ghaf u r, Abdullah Khan, Abdur Razz a q, Abdul ‘Az i z, Rash i d Ahmad, etc. (Author)