Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 73
73 described them as the vile sect of maulvis ( Anjam Aatham , p. 21) whereupon a clamor was raised that he had abused them, whereas he had only applied to them an expression employed in a hadees in which it is reported that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had said that the divines of the latter d ays would be the vilest of creation under heaven (Mishkat, Kitabul Ilm ). The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, having called the divines of the latter days the vilest of creation, how could the Promised Mahdi and Messiah be blamed for addressing them in those terms? Abuse is one thing and a correct description, however bitter and harsh, is quite another, It is the duty of every speaker of truth to convey the truth to an erring opponent even though he might thereby (Izalah Auham). At another place he states: My words had assumed some severity against my opponents in my writings, but I was not the one to start such severity. Those writings were undertaken in reply to the severe attacks of my opponents. They had used such harsh and abusive language as called for some severity. This can be perceived by the comparison which I have instituted between the harsh language used by my opponents - and that used by me in the foreword of my book which I have called Kitabul Bariyyah. As I have just stated the harsh language u sed by me was by way of retort. It was my opponents who first used such language