Majestic Writings of the Promised Messiah — Page 25
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 25 ] The writings of Mirz a Sahib are dry and uninterest- ing, because his writings are without any intellectual content or literary merit; his handling of the issues is ineffectual and his compositions resemble third rate medieval expressions. He would severely berate his adversaries, and occasionally even use abusive lan- guage. Many of his writings are full of so-called prophecies, which are usually about the impending death of his opponents. ( Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam , p. 13) The sum total of the threat hovering over the Islamic world is that he (Mirz a Sahib) was incapable of writing good Urdu, his style is without flair, and his writings lack humour and pun. Hence the man poses a grave threat to Islam! This accusation is completely false. The fact is that every word of the Promised Messiah as makes us ecstatic, inspires our souls, and kindles new life in us. If we pay tribute to his writings, then others may not accept it. Therefore, we ask the clerics of the past, who subscribed to a certain standard of piety; we research their prominent scholars, and their experts in Urdu literature, whose literary works were widely enjoyed by the Indian readership, for their objective appraisal of the Promised Messiah’s as writings. Maul a n a Abul Kal a m A z a d 9 , editor of the Urdu newspaper, Vak i l of Amritsar, was an exceptional scholar and an eminent writer, whose diction and eloquence are