The Shining Lamp — Page 95
Fifteenth [Prophecy] 95 had come to know with certainty that he was faint-hearted and a coward. Even after the prescribed period of the prophecy, he wept upon recollecting his ordeal, but the priests showed no fear of God Almighty and paraded him around the bazaars of Amritsar so as to show that he was alive and that the prophecy was false. Many impure-natured maulaw i s who were only Muslims in name, and some unworthy and materialistic news reporters allied them- selves with them and started to falsify and hurl abuse, thereby defaming Islam most passionately. This gave an opportunity to the Christian priests who started to dance insolently and mock Islam in near and far away places, from Peshawar to Allahabad, Bombay and Calcutta. The maulaw i s , who resembled the Jews, and the newspapers happily supported them. They were being pelted with the curse of God from the heav- ens, albeit they were unable to see it. At that time they were under Divine wrath, but the dust and dirt of their vain egoistic passions had rendered them blind. At that time these people were corrob- orating the call of Satan and did not care to heed the voice of the heavens. During those very days, an unfortunate and unworthy Muslim editor from Lahore, addressing Atham and referring to me, wrote in his newspaper that ‘Atham Sahib will confer a favour upon mankind if he punishes this man by filing a lawsuit. ’ This ignorant man desired to call upon a corpse of a man through these fiery words, but because he had already died, he could not move a muscle. And God Almighty is my Witness that I myself wished that if Atham had not taken an oath, he should have at least filed a lawsuit, but Atham was just a corpse. The