Life of Ahmad — Page 787
as A FALSE MOSES 787 copy of the revelations received by Il a h i Bakhsh. But he would not give them out. On the other hand, the friends of Il a h i Bakhsh accused Ahmad as of all sorts of things. Maulaw i Abdul Kar i m ra published a refutation of their allegations in the Al- H akam dated September 30th, 1899. But this party carried on their insidious propaganda against Ahmad as and would not publish the revelations which Il a h i Bakhsh was alleged to have received from God. Il a h i Bakhsh and his friends looked upon Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi as their spiritual leader. Now this Maulaw i had made a prophecy and Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf and his brother Munshi Muhammad Ya‘q u b had related it to Ahmad as. The latter had stood up in the field of Mub a hala with Abdul H aq at Amritsar and declared on oath before several hundred men that Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi had had a vision in which he saw the Divine light descend upon Qadian from heaven, of the benefit of which his own children were deprived. When Munshi Zafar Ahmad ra of Kapurthala reminded Munshi Muhammad Ya‘q u b of this prophecy, he wrote to him on April 22nd, 1900, a different version, saying that it was his wife who had a dream and that Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi had interpreted it to mean that God would raise in the near future someone through whom Islam would progress throughout the world and that it was perhaps Ahmad as of Qadian. Ahmad as , therefore, issued a leaflet on May 25th, 1900, in which he published this evidence in his favour and drew to it the attention of Il a h i Bakhsh and