The Afghan Martyrs — Page 125
your contact with the nations of the west, brief as it has been must have taught that a nation which demands the blood of a man merely because he differs from them in his beliefs, and a monarch who accedes to such a demand, are covered with eternal disgrace in the eyes of this world and as to the next, I trust the Majesty of Mghanistan has been taught Arabic enough to realise the import of the verse That the Afghan Government had only recently proclaimed full liberty of conscience throughout it dominions and had given assurance to that effect to the Ahmadiyya Community, only adds to the baseness and treachery of the crime committed by it on 31 st August last. This is not the first occasion on which such a dastardly outrage against God and humanity has been committed in your country by the sanction of its ruler, no one would have imagined that the Divine Judgement which overtook the last offender in this respect, should have deterred his successor from any further experiments of the kind, but it appears that a much severer chastisement at the hands of God is requisite to instill into the minds of Mghan rulers the principles of justice and humanity. Excellency, your nation probably rejoices today at the perpetration of the inhuman crime which has stained the hands of your ruler, who sanctioned it, with the blood of the innocent, but let them tremble and ask forgiveness of God, for their own sins and the sins of their monarch, for the mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. 125