Tabligh Guide — Page 74
(American Edition) 74 and have rallied against such a righteous man who hails from Ahl Sunnah Wal-Jam ā‘ ah, adheres to the straight path and guides others to it. And they issue edict of heresy (Fatw ā Kufr) against him! Look at his Arabic work which surpasses human contrivance: all his works are permeated with profound perceptions, truths and spiritual guidance. He is certainly not a disbeliever in the essentials of the practice of Ahl Sunnah Wa-Jam ā‘ ah and of the Faith. (Ishar ā t-e-Far ī d ī , Vol. 3, p. 69-70, Translated from Persain) Newspaper Wak ī l, Amritsar: “That man. . . a colossal man… whose pen was magic and diction enchanting, the man who was paragon of the marvels of mind. . . whose glance would cast a spell, and whose voice the clarion call of resurrection; and whose fists were the two charged batteries of electricity, the man who, for thirty years, was like the earthquake and storm to the world of religion; who sounded like the trumpet of doom and continued to awaken those who were deep in the slumber of mortal existence. . . He departed this world all by himself. . . The d eath of Mirzā Ghulām Aḥ mad Ṣāḥ ib Qadiani is not something from which one may not draw any lesson and just consign it to the ever receding time, and be content. Such personage who bring about revolutions in the religious or intellectual world, do not always visit this world. They are the pride of human history; their rare appearance on the world scene is very rare, and they depart only after having brought revolution in the world. ” “In view of his hallmark , that he continued to perform his duty as the General who was destined to be victorious against the opponents of Islām, compels us to register our feelings with full candor, so that the grand movement which, for long, has kept our enemies lying low and trampled over, may continue even in future. The literature produced by Mirzā Ṣāḥ ib during his confrontations with the Christians and the Aryas bears the seal of popular acclaims and he needs no introduction in his specialty. We have to heartily acknowledge the value and greatness of that body of literature, now that it has accomplished its task. This is because we can never efface from the template of our hearts, the time when Islām was surrounded by the incursions of its enemies, and the Muslims whose duty it was to safeguard it — they being in the nature of instruments which constituted the objective world of resources, created by God, the Genuine Protector — they lay sobbing helplessly, after being punished for their own blunders, and they were not doing anything — nor could they do anything — for Islām. On the one hand, the range of ons laughts indicated that