Life of Ahmad — Page 765
as JIHAD 765 Dr. Griswold compares this to the bull of Pope Gregory XIII, issued in 1580, which released the English Catholics from the obligation to resist Queen Elizabeth (imposed by the bull of Pope Pius V), and allowed them to continue their allegiance to her until they should be powerful enough to rebel openly. If Ahmad’s as phrase means anything, Dr. Griswold says, it must mean the same, but he generously adds, 'It is possible, however, that the phrase is meaningless, being used for the sake of literary padding, with an inadequate sense of its implication. We will give Mirza Sahib the benefit of the doubt, especially since the phrase occurs nowhere else, so far as I know, in his writings' (p. 12). Christians are untrue even to God: instead of One they believe in three. They put words in the mouth of a mortal born of a woman that he was God Himself—a doctrine that he would have shuddered even to think of. So one cannot make a grievance of other falsehoods that they might be guilty of. Ahmad as wrote the memorial in Urdu, so I give here the original words in question in order that readers may judge for themselve as to how far the Christian missionary is right: i. e. 'To preach the religion of Islam only by intellectual reasons and heavenly signs; and to