Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 61
61 Ahmad as. He was anxious to learn the result of the pro- ceedings, so he approached a group of people who were sitting outside also waiting to hear the result. One of them offered him a cloth sheet to sit on, little suspecting that Maulawi Sahib had come to assist the prosecution, but, when he came to know the purpose of his visit, he too requested him to leave. Thus, Maulawi Muhammad Hussain, who had come to see Hazrat Ahmad as being humiliated, was humiliated himself. Again, during the proceeding, when the counsel appearing on behalf of Hazrat Ahmad as put a question in cross-examination to Maulawi Muhammad Hussain, which related to the mother of the witness and the answer to which would have humiliated him, Hazrat Ahmad as stopped his counsel, saying: I will not allow such a question to be put as I have no desire to heap shame upon him. Everyone in the court room was quietly impressed by the magnanimity of Hazrat Ahmad as. Even his lawyer, Mr Fazal Din, who was not an Ahmadi, remarked with surprise after the case. ‘Ahmad as is a wonderful person; an opponent attacks his honour, puts his life in jeopardy, and in return he stops his lawyer