Life of Ahmad — Page 436
AHMAD as NEVER WISHED ILL as 436 old they wanted to entangle the Son of Man. But Ahmad as refuted the mischievous and baseless allegation by a leaflet printed at the Gulz a r Muhammadi Press of Lahore, which he issued on December 10th, 1894. An English translation of this leaflet (entitled My Attitude towards the British Government ) was sent not only to the local authorities but also to Queen Victoria, the Governor-General of India and the Leut. Governor of the Punjab. He reiterated his traditional loyalty and his selfless and unique services but emphatically repudiated and criticised the manufactured dogmas of the present-day Christian religion, which were a clear distortion of the beautiful teachings of Jesus as. He also exposed his opponents, who were expecting the advent of a bloody Mahdi. He specifically mentioned the names of Maulaw i Abdul ‘Az i z and Maulaw i Muhammad of Ludhiana who joined the rebels at Delhi with their father in June 1857, where they were arrested in 1859 (vide Record of Ludhiana District, dated December 4, 1858). Ahmad as was then blamed for causing agitation and disturbances, and the impression was created that he was responsible for causing bad blood among the adherents of different faiths. Though it is true that, like Jesus as , he came to 'set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law', yet he never sought trouble. Therefore he issued a leaflet on February 27th, 1895, in which he explained his policy