Life of Ahmad — Page 786
A FALSE MOSES as 786 out that he had not done so because Maulaw i N u r-ud- D i n ra had begged Munshi Il a h i Bakhsh not to disclose his revelations against Ahmad as. Il a h i Bakhsh had three friends—Abdul H aq, accountant; Khan Bah a dur Sayyid Fate h Ali Shah, Deputy Collector of Canals; and Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf, D illa‘d a r. Munshi T a judd i n had asked Fate h Ali Shah and he had given the above reason for not publishing the revelations. So Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra wrote a letter to T a jud D i n asking him to produce his letter which was supposed to have been written for the purpose. Maulaw i N u r- ud-D i n’s ra letter to T a jud D i n was published in the Al- H akam dated August 10th, 1899. The letter which he had written to Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf was published in the Al- H akam dated August 17th, 1899. In this he had asked Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf to give him an opportunity of talking over the subject. Maulaw i N u r- ud-D i n ra had in this letter reiterated and affirmed his own conviction that Ahmad as was the Promised Messiah. He had asked Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf to ponder over the matter and see whether Il a h i Bakhsh or Ahmad as was helped by God. Maulaw i N u r-ud- D i n ra wrote another letter (published in the Al- H akam dated August 31st, 1899), to Maulaw i Abdul Jabb a r Ghaznavi in which he asked to be supplied with a completed and published at that time because of the proposed expedition to Nasibeen and other reasons. At last Hakim Fa d l D i n drew Ahmad’s as attention to this book in October 1902 and he finished it off by adding a few lines to the MS on October 25th, 1902. Karam Ali K a tib says that only two pages (159, 160) of this book were then written by him along with the title. The book was thus published on October 28th, 1902.