Life of Ahmad — Page 616
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 616 exposition was given in the Ishtih a rs of the 21st and 30th November and all other Ishtih a rs (e. g. , those published by me on December 27th, 1898 and 3rd January, 1899) issued before receiving any information from the Court as to the charge against me. A perusal of the Ishtih a rs referred to above would clearly show that this interpretation was consistently given from the first in all my publications and that no other meaning was ever attached to the prophecy in question. The present charge against me is of such a nature that it cannot be sustained unless proved from my own writings. The meaning here attached to the prophecy was even illustrated by one instance in the Ishtih a r of the 30th November in which it had been shown that Muhammad Husain had made a serious blunder in condemning one of the revealed sentences as grammatically wrong. Taking all these facts into consideration, it is not clear how the revelation in question can be incriminating. The injured party is quite at liberty to pray God that He may disgrace the unjust. This case is founded on my revelations only as published on the 21st November. The Court would, therefore, to do justice, give due consideration to them and satisfy itself as to their meaning. Had my revelation been so general as to include every kind of disgrace, there would have been some justification in