Tadhkirah — Page 394
394 that is, on account of the case 433 that would be instituted against me, my Community would be tried. Then I received the revelation: 433 Note by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra : The reference is to the murder charge against the Promised Messiah as brought about by Martyn Clark. The Promised Messiah as writes: This case started in this manner. A man of the name of ‘Abdul- H am i d was incited by the Christians to make a statement before the District Magistrate of Amritsar that he had been sent by me to murder Dr. Henry Martyn Clark a Christian missionary. Thereupon the District Magistrate Amritsar issued a warrant for my arrest. On August 1, hearing this, my opponents gathered at the Batala and Amritsar station platforms and on the roads leading thereto, to witness my disgrace. But by Allah's grace it so happened that somehow that warrant miscarried and in the meantime the District Magistrate of Amritsar realised his lack of jurisdiction in the case and sent a telegram, on August 6, to the District Magistrate of Gurdaspur that the execution of the warrant should be stopped. This telegram surprised everyone at Gurdsapur as they had received no intimation of any warrant. When the record was received by the District Magistrate of Gurdaspur he summoned me to his court and treated me with great courtesy, providing me with a chair close to him. The name of this District Magistrate was Captain M. W. Douglas. He was a wise, intelligent and just man and realised immediately that the whole case was false and without foundation, and that is why I have compared him to Pilate at another place, but in his courage and justice he was much better than Pilate. By the further grace of Allah it so happened that ‘Abdul- H am i d himself confessed that he had been put up by the Christians to make his original statement which was entirely false. The District Magistrate, being convinced of the truth of this, wrote a strong order discharging me and congratulated me with a smile. [Allah be praised for all this. ] [Nuz ul u l-M as ih, pp. 198–199, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, pp. 576–577] For a detailed account, see Kit a bul-Bariyyah , pages 1–104, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , volume 13, pages 19–122.