Life of Ahmad — Page 486
486 CHAPTER 50 LETTER TO THE AMIR In Shaww a l 1313 A. H. (May 1896) Ahmad as wrote a letter, 113 most probably in Persian, to the then Amir of Afghanistan. It ran as follows: 'The reason of writing this letter is a characteristic of human nature. When a man hears of a sweet spring having manifold blessings, he is drawn and attracted towards it. The attraction then affects the body and the man wishes to run towards it and see it and enjoy its sweet water. In the same way when your fine morals, noble habits, Islamic sympathy and high reputation spread throughout India and all good men began to 113 This letter was not published in Ahmad’s as lifetime. I have given here a rough rendering of the Urdu version found in Muhammad Bakhsh’s (Deputy Inspector of Police, Batala) papers by his grandson ( S i ratul Mahdi , Pt. III, Qadian, 1939, p. 79). The only reference to this letter which I have found in Ahmad’s as writings is that he wrote a letter to Ch. Rustam Ali ra (a devoted disciple of Ahmad as in the Police Department) on June 11th, 1896, informing him that Ahmad as had instructed P i r Man zu r Muhammad to send a copy of this letter to Ch. Rustam Ali.