Life of Ahmad — Page 788
A FALSE MOSES as 788 his friends. He also took this opportunity of asking him once again to publish his revelations. The idea of Ahmad as in having them published was to make the world a witness of the revelations and how they were fulfilled or falsified. At long last Il a h i Bakhsh produced a book entitled ‘A sa ’-e-M u s a in September 1900. It was printed at the Ansari Press, Delhi. Ahmad as received a copy probably in the first week of December and God revealed to him that He was with him and that the book would prove of no effect. In this Il a h i Bakhsh did not only publish his revelations but also made an effort to write a reply to D ar u rat-ul-Imam. On November 13 th , 1900, Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf met a few followers of Ahmad as at Amritsar. They said that an impostor who manufactured revelations was soon destroyed and could not live for 23 years; and that if any one claimed to receive verbal revelation from God for 23 years or more he could not be an impostor. Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf asserted that the limit of 23 years was arbitrary and that there had been such impostors and that they had lived for 23 years and longer. He said that he would believe in Ahmad as if he failed to put forward the name of any such impostor by December 20th, and they promised that if Hafiz Muhammad Y u suf succeeded in this they would forsake Ahmad as. The pact was written down and signed by the following: Mufti Muhammad Sa diq ra , Mirza Khud a Bakhsh ra , Hafiz Ahmadullah Khan ra , Nab i Bakhsh Rafugar ra , ‘Ib a dullah ra , Allah