Life of Ahmad — Page 509
as PLEADINGS WITH SCRIBES 509 book in print. Thus was fulfilled the word of God that those who sought the disgrace and destruction of Ahmad as would be themselves disgraced 120 and destroyed by God. Ahmad’s as soul was sore vexed at the spectacle of the worship of Jesus as. It was a direct insult to God that the son of Mary as should be set up as His equal. God comforted him with the news that the days of man-worship were numbered and that Islam would spread even in Western countries. A new earth and a new heaven were being prepared. He issued a special leaflet in which he declared that the time had come when the Master Prophet sa was to be recognised. 'Write it down from me,' he said, 'if you like, that the worship of the dead would henceforth be on the decline and this abomination shall be abolished from the face of the earth. ' He further declared that the God of Islam was the only Living God and that there was no sign of life in any other religion. He could demonstrate it to the followers of all religions (in only 40 days) that God 120 Qazi Fa d l Ahmad, a retired Court Inspector, living at Ludhiana (he originally belonged to Shahpur, Distt. Gurdaspur), wrote a book entitled Kalima Fa d l-e-Ra h m a n i (printed at Delhi Punch Press. Lahore). It was dedicated to Nawab Muhammad Is ha q Khan, Premier of Rampur State, who accepted the dedication on 11-9-1898. The book is full of irrelevance and abuse. The Proprietor of Akhb a r Waf a d a r , Lahore, took a special interest in this publication and the mullahs applauded it very much. This book came under discussion (on 11-11-1916) in the court of Sh. A s ghar Ali, District Magistrate of Ludhiana, who declared in his Judgment (dated 21-1-1918) that the accusations which the Q adi had brought against Ahmad as in this book were all false and that the references which he had quoted were wrong and distorted.