Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 230
230 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Hafiz Sahib or his associates are able to present categorical and reliable testimony that such and such person attributed any sayings to God, while these were not the words of God, and if after doing so, he lived as long as the Prophet of God, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—and that is to say, he lived for 23 years after making such a claim—then I will burn all of my books. These people have grown so excessive in their spite for me that they make a mockery of Islam and make assertions which are contrary to the Word of God. They will deny me even if it means that the Quran is proven false by their assertions. Prejudice is an evil thing. They make statements that make the Holy Quran a target. It makes me tremble to see that despite being Muslims, they act in this manner. On the one hand, there were those Muslims who would accept even such Hadith which were apparently weak if they found truth in them, and they would present these narrations as an argument against the opponents; and then there are those who refuse to accept an argument of the Holy Quran. I invite Hafiz Sahib to come here with decency, civility, and love, and stay for a few days. I am willing to cover the expense of his losses. He ought to listen to my arguments calmly and then put forth his criti- cism. He is most welcome to bring along Maulvi Ahmadullah Sahib as well. ” Babu Muhammad Sahib submitted that Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf Sahib rais- es the objection that Maulvi Abdul-Karim Sahib has blasphemed by writing in Al-Hakam that this man (the Promised Messiah as ) is the Ahmad of Arabia (the Prophet Muhammad sa ). The Promised Messiah as said: “Ask Hafiz Sahib that in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah it is recorded that I have been named Muhammad, and I have also been addressed as the Messiah. You read this and continued to praise this book and you wrote lengthy reviews stating the same. Now what has changed since then? In relation to this book, Maulvi Nazeer Husain of Delhi said himself in my presence that in support of Islam this book is such an excellent work that no other book like this has ever been written. At that time, Munshi Abdul-Haqq Sahib was also present and Babu Muhammad Sahib was there as well. During this era when Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah was written, you yourself accepted that it was free from any sort of fabrication and the like. If this was not the Word of God, how is it possible for a human being to make a seat for themselves and formulate such elaborate schemes so many years in advance? Now these people ought to answer for their hypocrisy and tell us why they viewed these very same statements in a positive light back then? The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has said himself p. 210