Life of Ahmad — Page 650
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 650 Next I would consider the circumstances which led to the publication of the prophecy about Lekhr a m. Lekhr a m came to Qadian from Peshawar, lived here for about two months and insisted that I should declare some prophecy about him. He admits this in his work entitled The Takdh i b on p. 332. He gave me permission of his own accord and submitted applications in his own handwriting. On the same page, writing about me, he says that I do not like to declare a prophecy of death until express permission is given, and further on publishes his own permission that a prophecy about him be made. I request that the pages of the work here referred to be read as they would prove beyond all doubt that, anterior to my publication of the fact, the prophecy concerning Lekhr a m had been published by the latter himself. Besides, he published an alleged prophecy about me declaring that I should die of cholera within three years. As to the rumours afloat at Lahore about the murder of Pandit Lekhr a m I beg to submit that there were various rumours amounting to twenty-four in all. One was to the effect that Lekhr a m had unlawful connection with a woman and had been put to death by one of her relatives. Several well-known newspapers of the province gave publication to it. The Bombay Muhammadans, the Anjuman H im a y a t-e-Islam, the Anjuman-e-Nu‘m a niya,