Life of Ahmad — Page 575
as RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION 575 the matter was the exact reverse. He himself was the aggrieved party. They had made him and his innocent Master, the Holy Founder sa of Islam, the victims of their vituperation. It was he who was the maligned and the provoked. These publications are really full of rank abuse. The foul-mouthed authors poured out nothing but the vials of venom against Ahmad as , 138 the Holy Quran 138 In the joint fatwas issued in 1890 against him by certain Maulaw i s of the Punjab and other parts of India the following are some of the expressions used: Dajj a l , a word taken to mean 'personification of all vices' by the issuers of the fatwa ( Fatwa Ulem a ’-e-Punjab wa Hindustan , p. 41) ; Dhurriyyat-ud-Dajj a l i. e. , 'children of Dajj a l' ( Fatwa p. 40) Kadhdh a b i. e. 'a confirmed liar and fabricator' ( Fatwa p. 87), Mul h id wa Zind i q i e. , 'a faithless infidel and a double-dealing heretic' ( Fatwa p. 90); Bad-tar i n-e- Khalq i. e. , 'the most wicked of God’s creatures' ( Fatwa , p. 96); Ashaddul- murtadd i n i. e. , 'worst of apostates' ( Fatwa , p. 119); Uspar Khud a k i La‘nat i. e , 'accursed of God' ( Fatwa , p. 149); Usk a munh k a l a hu i. e. , 'may his face be blackened' ( Fatwa , p. 150); Daj a jila k a ra‘s-e-ra‘ i s , i. e. , 'the ring-leader of Dajj a ls' ( Fatwa , p. 155), Kaj-rau, Bal i d. . . Us Shai ta n sei ziy a dah gumr a h hai ju is kei s a th kheil rah a hai. . . i. e. , 'perverse, dunce,. . . even more astray than his playmate the devil. . . ' ( Fatwa p. 101); Is Q a dian i kei, chuze Han u d-u-Na sa r a kei mukhannath hai Ĕ i. e. , 'the chicks of this Qadiani are castrated eunches of Hindus and Christians' ( Fatwa , p. 100). In the fatwa issued by the ulema of Ludhiana in 1890 the following words have been used: Cham a ru Ĕ ka ‘ I sa i. e. , 'the Christ of the Chamars' (p. 13); Un kei nika h b a q i nah i Ĕ rahei ; ju ch a hei unk i ‘Aurtu Ĕ sai nik ah kar lei i. e. , 'the marriage contracts of his and his followers are all void; and any body is free to enter into marriage relationship with any woman in the wedlock of any of them' (p. 3). Maulaw i Muhammad Husain of Batala wrote in the Ish a‘ atus-Sannah : Bhangar, makk a r, fareib i , mal‘ u n, a‘war dajj a l, abdud-dar a him waddan a n i r, jisk a ilh a m i h til a m hai, bei- h ay a , bhangiyu Ĕ aur baz a r i shuhdu Ĕ k a sargaruh, d a k u , kh u Ĕ reiz, jis k i jam a ‘at badm a‘ sh, badkird a r, z a n i , shar a b i , i. e. , 'raving drunkard, intriguer, swindler, accursed, the one- eyed Dajj a l , slave of silver and gold, whose revelation is nothing but a seminal discharge, shameless, the ring-leader of sweepers and street- vagabonds, dacoit, murderer whose followers are scoundrels, villains, adulterers, and drunkards'. (Vol. 16).