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26 26 Islasm ntals eriosP urPsb In order to continue this practice of spewing invectives and foul language, he elicited the services of a mischievous individual by the name of Muhammad Bakhsh Jafar Zatalli —a resident of Lahore—and prepared all sorts of foul announcements himself, and published them in the said person’s name. However, it was Muhammad Husain who perpetrated all this in secret and he also informed people of his actions. Moreover, he continued to boast that this was his own doing in his magazines. All these vile announcements, which Muhammad Husain has been publishing most mischievously for a year or a little more, are composed in a most unwholesome and filthy manner. Every con - ceivable attempt has been made to dishonour, disgrace, slander, and humiliate me in these announcements; they are full of such foul and vulgar accusations that I cannot imagine even the worst dregs of society adopting such shameless and brazen methods against their enemies. From among these announcements, one was published on 12 August 1898 by the Taj-ul-Hind Press. A sec - ond announcement was published on 25 September 1898, by the Fakhr-ud-Deen Press Lahore. Likewise, a third announcement and an addendum were published on 11 June 1897 by the same printing house. I shall record, for the authorities, certain excerpts from these four announcements, in order to show the extent to which they have sought to defame me. They have been publishing such filthy announcements for not a month or two, but an entire year. After suffering these multiple wounds, ✩ I was forced to write an announcement of my own, which was issued on 21 November ✩ I did not publish the prayer-duel announcement of 21 November 1898 until the opposing party had made numerous requests to me for a