Life of Ahmad — Page 640
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 640 and preached in writing as well as verbally that to murder me was meritorious. Not being satisfied with all this, he hired the services of some base and scurrilous persons such as Mullah Muhammad Bakhsh, Jafar Zatall i , and Abul Hasan Tibbat i to publish the foulest epithets and most filthy language concerning me. When these contumelious writings of Muhammad Husain’s party became widely circulated and overstepped all bounds of decency, I advised my followers to submit a memorial to the Government to put a stop to them. A memorial was accordingly submitted, but it met with the reply that the Government could not interfere in the matter. Thereupon I issued a notice to my followers on May 29th, 1898, and enjoined upon them not to return evil for evil, to lead lives of purity, meekness and innocence, and to be true sympathisers of mankind at large and loyal and law-abiding subjects of the British Government. A second memorial was submitted to the Government of India and its attention was drawn to the religious literature of the day. On the other hand, repeated challenges of Mub a hala were sent to me by Muhammad Husain and his party. Then I published my Ishtih a r of November 2lst, 150 and in its closing part reproduced the 150 It was followed by five more notices by the opposite party