Life of Ahmad — Page 570
570 CHAPTER 59 RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION Ahmad’s as honourable discharge in the case which the Christian missionaries had brought against him under Section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code was indeed a Divine sign. For his enemies it was a fearful humiliation. Dr. Clark had himself wished formally to withdraw his complaint. How just was the retribution which his enemies had brought on their own heads. The curses which they had intended for another had recoiled upon themselves and the 'engine wherewith another should be crushed, had sprung back with sudden rebound to their own confusion and shame. ' Yet in their own utter discomfiture they had a vain consolation. Though they had miserably failed in their combined effort to bring ruin on Ahmad as or even to shake his credit with the multitude, yet through their systematic conspiracy they had succeeded in embroiling him to some extent with the civil authority. As a result of their machinations the District Magistrate had in his judgment formally warned