The Ocean of Light — Page 145
145 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS the flesh of innocents and harmed the faith with their lies, their punishment was that they should have been the target of whips and should have been flogged, or that they should have been targeted with spears and injured with harsh words. They want to threaten me, but why should I be afraid of them? They are my prey. They call others corrupt but forget about their own selves and deny the truthful without fear. They do not stand in the field of battle; rather, like a rat, they have prepared seventy little holes for their escape. They had made God Almighty a witness to their pledge of remaining silent and had taken an oath with Him, but how quickly have they forgotten it. Truly arrogance has seeped into them and their veins are saturated with it, hence they cannot stop even if they take oaths that they will. They have mustered their armies at the borders to wage war against the heavenly ones. They oppressed us and mocked us. They pretended to be ignorant after knowledge and they feigned blindness