Truth About the Split — Page 388
388 thus was fulfilled one of the wishes of the promoters of the Paigham-e-Sulh which had found inadvertent expression in its issue of March 10 in the following words: "At any rate, the death of the Promised Messiah as in this city ought to bring to Lahore some distinction". Shrewd students of human motives will perceive and enjoy the pathetic humour of these few words in which are packed a mass of ambition, desire, longing and hope. No sooner was Maulawi Muhammad Ali installed at Lahore than the opposition received an added impetus. The incident of the children’s threat to pelt him came soon to assume the form that "some children threw stones at Maulawi Muhammad Ali, but…God be thanked they did not hurt him". A little later that "some children threw stones at him but God be thanked that his eyes were not hurt". Then, the story underwent a further elaboration, and took the form that "the people of Qadian threw stones. " Then that "his life was not safe among the people of Qadian, inasmuch as a beginning had been made by them by throwing stones at him". The last version was one given by Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself before a number of people at Amritsar.