Life of Ahmad — Page 146
AT HOSHIARPUR as 146 but he stuck to his point. To stop him from wasting time, Ahmad as gave him a pledge in writing that the required reference would be inserted in the report of the proceedings which was to be published. This was done, to the eternal shame of Murl i dhar. The reference is: Page 263, Sam. 8, Edition 1875. Ahmad as wrote the first paper in which he pointed out that, according to the teachings of the A rya Sam a j, God could not create anything; and in so far as man could not attain to everlasting salvation, God was void of love. This paper was read out in one hour. Murl i dhar spent more than an hour, not in explaining and vindicating the position of the Sam a j, but in pointing out that Ahmad as raised two questions instead of one. Ahmad as removed his misunderstanding, and then he took three hours in writing his answer, which was even then not complete. It had to be read out incomplete because he said the remaining portion would later be supplied at his own convenience. He was pressed to complete his answer there in the meeting, in which hundreds of people had gathered. But he neither completed his answer nor handed over the written portion to Ahmad as for reply; and instead of finishing the debate as previously arranged, he left the meeting, as before, under an excuse that he had to attend another meeting of the Sam a j. The following are the names of a few of those who were present in that meeting: Sh. Mehr Ali, M. Il a h i Bakhsh, Vak i l; Dr. Mu s taf a Ali, Babu Ahmad Husain, Deputy Inspector of Police; Miy a Ĕ Abdul Hakim, Miy a Ĕ