Truth Prevails — Page 90
( 90 ) started saying and writing that Mirza Mahmud Ahmad is that person in whom the prophecy of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad about the Muslih Mau’ud has been fulfilled. So much so that even Mirza Mahmud Ahmad himself began to think of himself as such; for in the early years of his Caliphate, his following increased considerably and wealth started pouring in. The feeling of power and wealth and glory made him dream of becoming a world conqueror. But since he did not then consider himself appointed by Allah as Muslih Mau’ud , other people were not bound to accept him as such. Having been given some latitude by God, he became bolder still and impertinent; and finally on 28th January, 1944 A. D. he issued the following proclamation: ‘I swear by that God Who is One and Almighty, and taking a false oath in Whose name is the act of the accursed people and one who attributes a false thing to Him cannot escape His wrath and punishment, that God Himself informed me in this city of Lahore, at No. 13, Temple Road at the house of Sheikh Bashir Ahmad Advocate, that I am the one in whom the prophecy of ‘ Muslih Mau’ud ’ has been fulfilled; and I am that ‘Promised Reformer’ through whose efforts Islam will spread to the four corners of the world, and the worship of the One and Only God would be established. ” ( Al-Fazl , 1st February, 1944) The reader will not fail to note the polite style of expression used here by Mr. Faruqi. He calls Hazrat Khalifatul Masih ‘impertinent’. In regard to the learned divines of the Movement, he uses the word ‘ paltu ’ an expression of immeasurable contempt. All that we need say in this connection is to remind him of the following Hadith: “Jealousy is a fire which eats up the virtues, as fire eats up the fuel”. Mr. Faruqi here shows himself prone to a low type of expression. According to him, the ‘kept’ Ulama of the Movement, flatteringly started to call him the Muslih Mau’ud. He does not seem to have any adequate measure of the background of this question, during the stages of the bitter controversy heaped up on the point, though, at the root it is a very simple and straightforward question, which can be fully answered, from all sorts of possible angles. Perhaps he is not aware that the man who was the first to raise this question, of the identity of the Muslih Mau’ud , was not any scholar of the later period, towards the commencement of his Khilafat. The man who raised the question, to begin with, was an old venerable Companion of the Promised Messiah, Pir Manzur Muhammad. His study of the works of the Promised Messiah led him to the conclusion that Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad combined in himself all qualities and circumstances which marked him out, very clearly, as the Muslih Mau’ud. Pir Manzur Muhammad, wrote a paper on this prophecy. He deduced 14 points, and applied the Prophecy to Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, and he put it before Hazrat Maulvi Nurruddin Khalifatul Masih I whose reaction was: “I have known it for a long time. Have you never noticed that in my attitude towards him, on a personal