The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 17
17 Because from all eternity it is the practice of any given age that when such a sect appears among a people whose principles and beliefs are, in the view of these people, contrary to their own, the leaders of that group then try to somehow annihilate that sect and remain busy trying to humiliate it before the people and the Government. Hence, some of the Mullahs of this country have meted out to me this very treatment. The sworn enemy and adversary [of mine], from among them, is Muhammad Husain of Batala , the editor of Isha’at-us-Sunnah. This miserable person has sacrificed his own comfort by re - maining busy with swearing animosity towards me. And he has, carrying his disgraceful fatwa about my being a disbeliever, travelled all the way from Batala to Banaras to solicit the seal of approval for it. And when he was not satisfied with this alone, he continued to convey to the Government his unfounded views that I was secretly a rebel and was more dangerous than even the Sudanese Mahdi. 1 Even though, prior to this, he himself had pub - lished an article about me in Isha’at-us-Sunnah , claim - ing that it is the height of disbelief that anyone should entertain the idea about ‘this person’ that he had staged rebellion [against the Government]. And he had repeat - 1 A religious leader in Sudan who claimed to be the Promised Mahdi and fought against the state. [Publisher]