The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 99
99 THE MIRACLE OF AHMAD وَجُرِّحَ عِرْضِي مِنْ رِمَاحٍ إِهَانَةٍ وَأُلْقِيَ مِنْ سَبِّ إِلَيَّ الْخَنْجَرُ Injury was inflicted to my honour with the spears of defamation, And daggers of abusive language were cast at me. وَقَالُوا كَذُوبٌ مُفْنِدٌ غَيْرُ صَادِقٍ فَقُلْنَا اخْسَئُوْا إِنَّ الْخَفَايَا سَتَظْهَرُ They insisted that I am an imposter and untrue in my claim; My reply was: Leave me alone! The hidden truth shall even- tually become manifest. وَسَبُّوْا وَآذَوْنِي بِأَنْوَاعِ سَبِّهِمْ وَ سَمَّوْنِ دَجَّالًا وَسَمَّوْنِ أَبْتَرُ They hurled abuse at me and hurt my sentiments with unciv- ilized language of all sorts; They called me Dajjal [the Antichrist] and labelled me sheer evil, devoid of all good. وَ سَمَّوْنِ شَيْطَانًا وَسَمَّوْنِ مُلْحِدًا وَسَمَّوْنِ مَلْعُونًا وَقَالُوا مُزَوِّرُ They called me Satan and labelled me an atheist; They also called me accursed and declared me a fabricator. فَصِرْتُ كَأَنَّيْ لِلرِّمَاحِ دَرِيَةٌ وَأُوْذِيْتُ حَتَّى قِيلَ عَبْدٌ مُّحَقَّرُ I, therefore, became like the one who had been targeted with arrows; I was afflicted with pain so much that people said an extremely contemptuous person I was.