Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 94
94 consider His Holiness as to be an eminent and staunch Muslim, and know in their hearts that he is a man who will uproot false religions. However, when His Holiness as prescribes them a medicine, they trust him as much as they would a Rishi of their own faith. His Holiness as always advises his devotees, both ver- bally and in writing—and in fact, greatly emphasises— that you must not wrong any living creature and your tongues and deeds must not deceive or inflict injury. The wholesome and genuine relationship that His Holiness as holds with the ruler of the time (the British Government) is clearly manifest in his books and in the announcements that he publishes regularly. Over a period of ten years, either in privacy or in public, I have never once heard him speak ill of the government or any government official, either by way of insinua- tion and hints or explicitly. He has written treatises in Arabic and Persian, and spent thousands of rupees to publish them and send them to the lands of Syria, Arabia, Afghanistan, etc. , in which he has articulately supported the British government and emphatically urged all the nations of this land to accept their benev- olent rule. Brothers! Since I am pressed by a great many other responsibilities, on this, I must suffice. If God Almighty grants me further insight and enables me to take up my pen once more, I shall write on this subject again. I pray