Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 371
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 371 that they would develop similarity to the extent that if a Jew had com- mitted incest with his mother, they, too, would do the same. 1 ٭ Despite the fact that the Bat a law i has hurt me by lying to this extent and by his dishonesty and distortion, if he can still produce from any of my books the statement that he has ascribed to me, that I persisted and persevered in this very sin for twenty-five years, I can give him fifty rupees in cash. Otherwise, for my part, it suffices to say َ ْن ی ِ لَعْنَة ُ الل ِّٰ عَلَی الْكٰذِب [‘The curse of Allah be upon the liars’]. His Statement— It is not the hallmark of a true Prophet or recip- ient of revelation that he should knowingly and wilfully conceal and not proclaim for twenty-five years what God has commanded him to proclaim. 1. ٭ Those ulema of the Latter Days whom the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, termed as the Jews of this Ummah are specifically this particular kind of maulaw i s who are opposed to the Promised Messiah, thirst after his blood, are ever eager to destroy him, call him a disbeliever, faithless, and deceiver, and are ready to crucify him if it were possible for them; for this is how the Jewish divines and Pharisees treated Hadrat ‘ I s a [Jesus], may peace be upon him, and sought to kill him. But the ulema who are not of this kind, we cannot call them the Jews of this Ummah; rather, the Jews are only those who, like the enemies of Hadrat ‘ I s a , call me a deceiver, disbeliever, and faithless. It is not I that call them ‘Jews’, it is the Word of God Almighty that labels them as such. And this cannot be avoided in view of the fact that I am indeed true and am not a dis- believer, deceiver, or faithless. Thus, anyone who calls the true Messiah with these names, he is designated by the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as a ‘Jew’. Had Maulaw i Ab u Sa‘eed Muhammad H usain not declared me to be faithless, disbeliever, deceiver, and not considered him worthy of being killed, I would not call him a ‘Jew’, but while he does use such words regarding me, and while God knows that I am the true Promised Messiah, he makes himself a ‘Jew’ by justifying the application of the hadith of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to him- self, and yet asks me how I came to be ‘ I s a. The answer to it is that it happened just because of you people—had you not become ‘Jews’, I could not have this name. (Author)