Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 17
17 Nos. 4 - 7) In a Persian verse he has said: O thou who runnest towards me with a hundred hatchets! Have fear of the gardener, For I am a fruit - bearing branch! It can be asked why did he in any case express his loyalty and praised the British repeatedly in his books? The answer is that some people continuously reported to the Government that he was a dangerous person, even more dangerous than the Sudanese Mahdi. For instance, Maulvi Muhammad Hussain Sahib of Batala wrote concerning him: His deception is proved by the fact that in his heart he considers it lawful to put an end to the authority of a non - Muslim government and to plunder its belongings… Therefore, it would not be proper on the part of the Government to rely on him and it woul d be necessary to beware of him, otherwise such harm might be suffered at the hands of this Mahdi of Qadian as was experienced at the hands of the Sudanese Mahdi. (Ishaatus Sunnah, Vol. VI, 1893) To counter this propaganda, he had to state time after time in books that his community was loyal to the British Government.