The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 58
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 58 Husain of Batala and said that he had prepared a long list of the errors found in I‘j a zul-Mas ih. I accept that he may have prepared one, but such a list would be similar to the last time the said maulaw i raised an objection to one of my statements, wherein he claimed that the preposition l a m [ ل ]cannot be used alongside the Arabic word ‘Ajaba, and he had indeed laid much stress upon this. But when he was shown couplets written by a number of classical writers and poets from the pre-Islamic period, and indeed he was also shown some a ha d i th as well that contained the preposition of lam he became so embarrassed that none of his learned friends were able to help him out of the mortification he suffered. This happened during those days when a prophecy was made about the humiliation he was going to suffer and it was published later in an announcement that the prophecy was fulfilled in two ways: First, it was proved that Maulaw i Muhammad Husain’s atti - tude was hypocritical. He assured the government that no such person as the Mahdi would appear, that all a ha d i th in this regard were flawed and unreliable, and that there was no question of the appearance of such a Mahdi and of the Messiah who would come from Heaven to help the former. The fact of the matter is that all these statements are baseless and it appears as if he hopes to receive a large reward by making such statements. If he had denied the coming of such a Mahdi and warrior Messiah from his heart, I too would have been much pleased with him, for the one who truly speaks his heart deserves respect. Then, if the government had given him some land in Lyallpur or handed him the town of Batala as his estate, he would surely have been worthy of it. But I can never accept or reconcile with the fact that a person should present to the government, merely out of hypocrisy, a list of weak