Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 367
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 367 translated,’ might apply to them, and when they are in fact two proph- ecies—it becomes quite legitimate to demand from you as to why did you lie so much? Perhaps you acted on the fatwa justifying ‘expedient lie’ against me issued by the maulaw i s in the course of the Karam D i n trial. In any case, you must explain as to why you applied to the two revelations of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya found on pages 516 and 5571 the words meant for the revelation: عفت الدیار محلّھا ومقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out]. Is this the honesty and integrity you people have in your status as maulaw i s that you fabricated such a lie and you felt no fear of God Almighty in your heart? That is not all; you have slyly and mischie- vously written something on your own in your article and have tried to make it appear to people as though the statement you have attributed to me had indeed come from my pen. Thus the text you have imputed to me by way of forgery is: Through the prophecy in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , I had been given the information from God with great clarity that it referred to an earthquake. Nonetheless, I concealed it due to the fear of abuse and distrust by people and did not render the Urdu translation of the Arabic and publish it. By so doing I committed a great sin against God and persisted and perse- vered in this very sin for twenty-five years. O wretched fabricator! Should I still not say: ‘God’s curse be upon the liar!’—who fabricated words and attributed them to me? O callous 1. In the 2008 edition of R uha n i Khaz a ’in, the referenced text appears in vol. 1, pages 615 and 665. In the 2016 English translation of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part IV, this text appears on pages 395 and 435. [Publisher]