The Truth Unveiled — Page 54
54 54 Islasm ntals eriosP urPsb his like-minded clerics and in whose support the Messiah will descend from the heavens as per their belief, is a completely hypo - critical assertion, which he does not hold at heart. Hundreds of Muslim clerics in the Punjab and India can testify that he believes in a bloodthirsty Mahdi, but he duplicitously hides the truth of his beliefs from the government. Like-minded clerics such as Maulvi Ahmadullah of Amritsar, Maulvi Rasheed Ahmad of Gangoh, Maulvi Abdul-Jabbar of Amritsar, Maulvi Muhammad Bashir of Bhopal, Maulavi Abdul-Haqq of Delhi , Maulvi Ibrahim Arah, Maulvi Abdul-Aziz of Ludhiana and particularly Maulvi Nazeer Husain of Delhi, who is a teacher of Muhammad Husain, ought to be asked under oath whether they believe that the Promised Mahdi will come and wage war and whether or not Muhammad Husain of Batala, the editor of Isha’at-us-Sunnah, is from among them and shares in their beliefs or not; also whether he believes that the Khilafat of this time can be occupied by anyone other than a person from the Quraish. These testimonies will reveal the extent of Muhammad Husain’s hypocrisy before the government in the same way that the bones and innards of a corpse are revealed during their exhumation from a whitewashed and embellished grave. I assure my wise and enlightened government that this indi - vidual holds the same belief about the Mahdi as do his like- minded friends, i. e. other Muslim clerics from the Punjab and the rest of India. The government can understand that it would be impossible for Muhammad Husain to hold a different view from the other Muslim clerics regarding such a widely accepted Islamic belief, and yet remain their friend and leader. A further proof of this is that in volume 12, page 380 of his Isha’at-us-Sunnah, he has clearly stated that ‘ Khilafat is the due right only of the Quraish;