Truth About the Split — Page 19
19 state; while in the latter case the person who examined the disciple was no less a personage than the king of the country; and while in the first case the inquiry was repeated only three times and was answered as often in the negative, in the latter case the examination was held a large number of times and was always replied to in the affirmative. I refer to the martyrdom of Sahibzadah Maulawi Abdul Latif, a very learned and saintly gentleman of Afghanistan. He had heard about the Promised Messiah as and had read his books. He believed in him and came down to Qadian to spend some time in his company. When he returned to his country, being a person well-known for his learning and influence, so much so that he had been selected to perform the coronation ceremony of Amir Habibullah, the present Amir, 2 the news of his conversion was soon carried to that monarch. The latter was at the same time besieged by the Maulawis, who urged that the Sahibzadah had turned an infidel and deserved the punishment of death. The Amir was obliged to take action. He at first sent some of his officers and asked Maulawi Abdul Latif to renounce his faith. When he refused to comply with the request, 2 Amir Habibullah was living at the time when this book was being written. At the time of its publication he had already met his death at the hands of an assassin.