Life of Ahmad — Page 320
320 CHAPTER 27 FIRST AHMADIYYA CONFERENCE At Qadian Ahmad as wrote a booklet of about 40 pages which was printed at the Riy ad -e-Hind Press, Amritsar. Two thousand copies were distributed free. Before being printed the manuscript was read out by Maulaw i Abdul Kar i m on December 27th, 1891, at a meeting held in the Masjid Aq sa. Eighty members of the Community were present; they came from Kapurthala, Lahore, Sialkot Bhera, Jammu, Wazirabad, Gujrat, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Nowshehra, Patti and the district of Gurdaspur. Ahmad as had called this meeting specially for the purpose of consulting his friends and disciples about the best method of putting into practice the proposals made in the book. In the early part of this book, Ahmad as described how unreasonably he had been excommunicated and declared an infidel by Muhammad Husain and Nadh i r Husain. Then he referred to the happenings at Delhi and the abuse and the maltreatment he received at the hands of his opponents. He had given the mullahs