The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 37
37 A Clear Test by which the Honourable Government Can Identify Its True Well-Wisher (It is respectfully submitted to the Honourable Gov - ernment that they should attentively look at the follow - ing article and should test both the parties according to the purport of this petition. ) Since Maulvi Abu Saeed Muhammad Husain of Batala , the editor of Isha’at-us-Sunnah, has always been secretly trying to create doubts about me in the mind of the Honorable British Government, and since I have come to know that for the last many years this has been his habit, I deem it appropriate that, for Muhammad Hu - sain and myself, such a test should be set by which the Government should come to know as to who is its true well-wisher and who the ill-wisher, albeit secretly, so that our wise Government should, on the basis of this very yardstick, be able to differentiate between the sincere and the hypocrite. Hence, in my view that test is this: some such beliefs, which, on account of misunderstanding, are taken to be Islamic beliefs—and are also such that anyone who holds them, he is a danger to the Govern - ment—should be made the yardstick for identifying who