The Green Announcement — Page 2
2 The reader should remember that some of my opponents have written disparaging articles about the demise of my son in their newspapers and other publications. They say that he was the same child about whom I had claimed, in my announcements of 20 th February 1886, 8 th April 1886, and 7 th August 1887, that he would become a man of glory and greatness and wealth, and nations would be blessed through him, and some of them even concocted a revelation 2 to the effect that the boy would marry the daughters of kings. The reader should understand that those who have raised these objections have either been 2 The slanderer referred to here is none other than Lekh Ram of Pesh a war, who has referenced all the three above-mentioned an- nouncements in an announcement of his own in order to further his claim, and has acted dishonestly throughout. For instance, in quoting the announcement of 8 th April 1886, he only alludes to the passage in which I said that a boy would be born soon within the nine-month period of a pregnancy, but he fails to mention the next sentence in which I said that hitherto it was not clear whether this was the [promised] boy or whether he would be born at a later date within the stipulated nine-year period. He omitted this part intentionally, for it contradicted his assertion and falsified the basis of his false sur- mise. His other injustice is that, in his announcement, he fails to acknowledge the announcement previously issued by the A ryas and printed at Chashma N u r Press in Amritsar, in which they acknowl- edged that it was not clear from any of my three announcements whether the deceased boy was the Promised Reformer or whether he was to come afterwards. This announcement was in itself enough to falsify Lekh Ram’s contention, and I invite the reader to once again read this announcement which, for all practical purposes, had better been entitled, 'God loves not the deceivers. ' [Author]