The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 23
23 prudent Mullahs, he is by nature extremely malicious and stingy, so has he instantly, and without any hesitation, testified to my being a disbeliever. Then who else would have hesitated? And all his students, the scavengers, then issued the fatwa of my being a disbeliever. Well, as to who is the disbeliever and who the believer is a matter the reality of which everyone will come to know only after death. However, here only this needs to be disclosed that Muhammad Husain had, without any rhyme or reason and out of malice, issued the fatwa and, having travelled to various places of Hindustan , had it endorsed hundreds of times, to get it testified that ‘this person’ is an infidel and an Anti-Christ. And since then he hasn’t refrained from insulting, deriding and abusing me. And he had written, with his own hand, articles which are full of filthy abuses and had them published under the names of Muhammad Baksh Jafar Zatalli, of Lahore and Abul Hasan, Tibbati. Then, later he lifted most of those arti - cles from their original publications, and republished them under his own name, in his magazines. These are all facts, which are supported by solid proofs, and not conjectures. Then, when he did not consider this to be sufficient, he issued the fatwa that I should be killed. And he repeatedly requested me for Mubahalah , and then shirked away from it and [tried to] tarnish my reputa -