Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 16
16 motive. It is requested that the authorities should act with wisdom and caution and after due investigation and attention towards a family whose loyalty and devotion have been well established and concerning whom high officials of Government have always ex pressed the view in their letters that its members are the well wishers and loyal servants of the British Government and which is a tree planted by itself. (Tableegh Risalat, Vol. VII, pp. 19 - 20) It is quite clear that the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, did not describe his claim as ‘a tree planted by the Government’, but has used this expression concerning the services rendered by the members of his family and himself in the past. Concerning h is claim, he had recorded in the same letter addressed to the Lieutenant Governor: I claim to be the Promised Messiah under Divine behest and having been honored by Divine revelation and inspiration. With regard to his own advent he announced emphatically that he was a tree planted by the hand of God Almighty. He wrote: I am not a tree that can be uprooted by them. If their first ones and their last ones, and their living ones and their dead ones, should all combine together and should pray for my death, my God would reject all their prayers and would throw them back at t hem as a curse. (Arbain,