Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 28
28 subtle fraud and deception they have misled a large number of people. My heart has never been tortured by anything so much as by the ridicule and insults the heap on his fair name. The offensive taunts and abuse to which they have recourse about the Best and the Holiest of Men have deeply wounded my hearts. I call God to witness that even if all my children, the children of my children, all my friends, all my relations, and all my members of my family were to be cut to pieces in front of my eyes, and my own hands and feet slashed off, the pupils torn out of my eyes, and I be deprived of all the wishes nearest and dearest to my heart, deprived of all my joys in life as against these tortures, the pain is more unbearable for me when such low and dirty attacks are made upon the Holy Prophet. Therefore, Thou, O heavenly Master, have mercy on us, bless us with Thy help, and succor, and rescue us from this great trail and tribulation. ” ( Aaeena Kamalat-I-Islam ) 13 Can any other instance of such jealousy for the honor of the Holy Prophet, of such devotion to him, be quoted from anywhere in the world at the present day? And we must remember that this was no empty claim by mere word of mouth. On the contrary the entire life of the Promised Messiah, all the big and small incidents in it, bear solid testimony to the truth of this claim, which even his most hostile critics found themselves forced to admit. Following his death, the Vakeel, a well-known Non-Ahmadi weekly wrote editorially: “In spite of the acute differences with him on some points of doctrine and belief, the death of Mirza Sahib has made the intelligent Muslims feel that one of their great men has passed away from this world, and with his passing away has ended that effective defense of Islam against the attacks of enemy which was connected with his