Truth Prevails — Page 100
( 100 ) Hazrat Khalifatul Masih’s Challenge for Mobahila Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II could not accept the challenge for mobahila given by Mistri Abdul Karim, since the Sharia did not permit him to do so. But from his own side, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih challenged him to come in for mobahila on the validity of his Khilafat. On this point Hazrat Khalifatul Masih spoke, very feelingly, to the following effect: “I put myself on a solemn oath, in the name of God, Who holds my life in His hand; Who is the master in everything connected with punishment and reward; and from Whom proceed all kinds of honour and disrepute, that I am the Khalifa appointed by Him; and those who stand opposed to me, and demand that I should engage myself in a mobahila , they are acting in defiance of His wishes, and the laws coming from Him. In this if I am working a fraud of some kind – then, O Lord, make the truth clear by means of some unmistakable Sign. Now that I have taken this solemn oath, let whosoever believes he is justified in his opposition to me in this behalf, come forward to take a similar oath, on his own part, then leave the matter to be decided by Allah. ” (Letter dated October 21, 1927, addressed to Babu Abdul Hamid Shimlavi, published in leaflet entitled Jawab Mobahila , page 10, June 30, 1929) It is needless to add that Mistri Abdul Karim did not have the courage to accept this straight forward challenge. Another Wrong Statement by Mr. Faruqi On page 41 of his book, Mr. Faruqi writes: “The Khalifa Sahib started persecuting Sh. Abdul Rehman Misri and his few friends who sided with him. On some, even murderous attacks were made. In this connection, in one of the court cases, the trying magistrate, Mr. J. D. Khosla wrote in his judgement: ‘To propagate their ideas and to expand the number of their Community, these people (the mureeds of Mirza Mahmud Ahmad) started using such weapons and methods which are generally considered as objectionable. So that those people who refused to tow the line, were subjected to (social and economic) boycott and expulsion (from the town or Community); and at times they were threatened by dire and ghastly consequences’” It is altogether wrong that any court proceedings against Abdul Rahman Misri went before Mr. J. D. Khosla. The case to which Mr. Faruqi is referring here, was decided at last in the High Court, on November 11, 1935, while Sh. Abdul Rahman was expelled from the Community in 1937. The case to which reference has wrongly been made here was the Government versus Syed Ataullah Shah Bokhari, over a speech by Bokhari, held objectionable by the Government, in which he was convicted to imprisonment for six months.