Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 370
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 370 to my announcement of 11 May 1905, which was published twenty-five years after Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , my mind had not moved to consider that the earthquake meant a real physical earthquake. But the meaning of the revelation became clear twenty-five years later at the occurrence of the earthquake. Since the two statements are contradictory, and I only accept one of them, which has been set out in this article of Maulaw i Sahib with his own hand, namely, that for twenty-five years I could not ascertain the meaning of the prophecies found on pages 516 and 557 of Bar a h i n- e-Ahmadiyya. Now can there be any doubt that the second statement would be considered a fabrication of Maulaw i Sahib until he proves it from any of my books or announcements, that I have written the afore- said statement somewhere or I have written somewhere that I persisted and persevered in this sin for twenty-five years that, I had categorically learnt about the earthquake from the time of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya and yet kept this news concealed? Now, readers, for the sake of God, being mindful of your death, tell me honestly whether or not a person who fabricates so much and concocts statements and ascribes them to me deserves some punish- ment and penalty as per the Shariah? Make a clear statement and be rewarded. And also tell me, solely for the sake of Allah, whether such a person who commits forgery with such cheek, deserves to be called a maulaw i in the future? And is it not appropriate that a council of scholars should be appointed and he should be summoned and asked in which book or magazine have I written the imagined statement that he has attributed to me? I shudder at the thought of someone being called a maulaw i , and yet being guilty of such forgery, distortion, dishonesty, falsehood, impertinence, and insolence. Do those who label me as a k a fir and faithless not remember the hadith of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in which it is written that the majority of maulaw i s in the Latter Days would develop similarity to the Jewish divines? Rather, even worse than that, some a ha d i th [pl. hadith] state