Life of Ahmad — Page 548
DR. CLARK DRAGS HIM INTO COURT as 548 invented; and corroborated the original statement. Then: Whether the first of the stories given by Abdul Hamid is the true one, or the second, it is obvious that there are insufficient grounds for action against Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in this case. Abdul Hamid, the important witness, is an accomplice and he has made two different statements. I am inclined to think that, generally speaking, the second statement is probably true, and that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad did not send Abdul Hamid to Dr. Clark nor instruct him to kill the latter; for the following reasons: Abdul Hamid himself is quite unfitted for such a responsible and desperate undertaking. He is a tall, overgrown, weak-minded youth, of admittedly profligate inclinations, and not in the least a fanatic. In fact, his history shows that he has spent his time vacillating between Christianity and Muhammedanism, ready to cast his lot wherever he was sure of food and clothing. Dr. Grey (of the American Mission) states that he struck him at once as being an impostor so far as his previous leanings towards Christianity were concerned. It is admitted that Ghulam Ahmad only saw him for about fourteen days in all. He could not have got to know him sufficiently well in so short a space of time to trust him in such a