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268 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ber that if you are deemed among the truthful in the sight of Allah Almighty, no one who opposes you can cause you grief. If, however, you do not set aright your state of affairs and if you do not make a firm covenant of obedience with Allah the Exalted, then God has no care for such people. Thousands of sheep and goats are slaughtered daily, and no one is moved by mercy to prevent this; yet if even a single human being is killed, a long string of questions will follow. Therefore, if you let yourselves become useless and carefree in the likeness of animals, you shall meet the same fate. You ought to join with those who are loved by God so that no disease or calam- ity can muster the courage to lay its hands upon you. For nothing can transpire on earth except with the permission of Allah Almighty. Rid yourselves of all mutual conflict, aggression and enmity. Now is the time for you to set aside trivial mat- ters and engage yourselves in important and magnificent work. The people will oppose you and the members of the Anjuman will be displeased with you, but you ought to advise them gently and not act vehemently towards them. This is the advice that I bequeath to you. Always remember my counsel in the form of a testament that you must never act angrily or harshly, but rather you must advise everyone gently, softly and courteously. Clearly explain to the members of the Anjuman that such a memorial' is actually harmful to the religion of Islam. The reason we have opposed their memorial is because it is injurious to the religion. ² 25 July 1898 1 The Best Response to Abusive Language Maulvi Muhammad Husain of Batala dispatched his periodical Isha'at-us-Sunnah of 1895, volume 18, numbers 5 to 12, with Muhammad, the son of Chughta, who belongs to the Awan people, a resident of Hammu, Ghakhar, district Sialkot, in which many unjust attacks had been made against the Promised Messiah (as). On the afternoon of 25 July 1898, the Promised Messiah (as) returned the original cop- ies of these bound periodicals to the messenger and wrote the following on the top of the front page: A Christian by the name of Ahmad Shah published an immensely hurtful book entitled Ummahat- ul-Mu'minin in the quantity of 1000 copies in 1898 and dispatched it free of charge to the renowned Muslims of that time. As a reaction to this, the Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam Lahore submitted a memorial to the government which proved to be of no benefit. This comment of the Promised Messiah's makes reference to this memorial. 2 Al-Hakam, vol. 2, nos. 12-13, dated 20-27 May 1898, p. 10