The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page xiii
So that time had come when the Promised Messiah as should have had addressed these lies and calumnies before the Government and once again reassured it about his loyalty to it. Hence, he wrote Haqiqat-ul-Mahdi. After a brief account of the enmity that Muhammad Husain and the Ahl-e-Hadith harbour towards him, he first gives his own belief [about the Mahdi] and that of the Ahl-e-Hadith to draw a comparison between the two. Then he further expounds on the deep-rooted enmity of Muhammad Husain towards him and on how it had translated into his nefarious activities against him— covering the fatwa issued by Muhammad Husain about the Promised Messiah as and his [Muhammad Husain’s] hypocrisy as well as his efforts to turn the people and the Government against him. In the course of this discussion he also elaborates on the nature of prophecies and categorically states that no prophecy of his remained unfulfilled. The main thrust comes at the end of the text, in a plea addressed to the Government, where he proposes a test in order to enable the Government to differentiate between the sincere and the hypocrite, the liar and the truthful. And, in order to fulfil the conditions set out in the test, he had written his own beliefs regarding the disputed matters in Arabic with its Persian translation