Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 368
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 368 tyrant! You call yourself a Maulaw i and yet were not ashamed when you unjustifiably lied so much about me. Can you show me these words that you have written in my announcement of 11 May 1905 or in any other announcement or in any magazine ? لعنۃ الل ّٰ علی الكاذبین [May the curse of Allah be upon the liars]. Let those who consider such people to be maulaw i s [religious cler- ics] and honest and are eager to act upon their word, be cautious. This is the state of their honesty. The words of a liar necessarily have con- tradictions, and so is this statement of the Maulaw i Sahib full of con- tradictions. Thus, on page 5, column 3, lines 15 and 24, he quotes the statement of my Ishtih a r as: ‘I had given the news of this earthquake in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , and even though at that time my mind did not envisage something out of the ordinary, but now, looking at these prophecies, it seems that they were about a future earthquake which remained obscure to me at that time. ’ Now, readers should see for themselves that the statement recorded above just means that at the time when I was writing Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya , my mind could not turn to it that the earthquake means an actual earthquake. This point remained obscure from my mind, and now after twenty-five years when the earthquake came about did I real- ize that those prophecies of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya were related to the future earthquake. This is what he has written as an admission on my part and it is quite accurate, for I did indeed publish this in my announcement of April 1905, entitled An-Nid a min Wa h y-is-Sam a’ on page 7 of the announce- ment published at the Nawal Kishore Press, Lahore. The full text is as follows: ‘It should be noted that both these earthquakes are mentioned in my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya which was published in many coun- tries twenty-five years ago. Even though at that time my mind did not envisage anything out of the ordinary, yet looking at these prophecies now, it seems evident that they were related to future earthquakes that remained obscure to me at that time. ’ Now readers can understand that I have clearly written in this