Life of Ahmad — Page 618
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 618 revelation in which it was said that the party in error would receive the same disgrace as the party in the right had suffered at its hands, has been fulfilled in its true and literal sense. Muhammad Husain had, in fact, adopted a very incomprehensible course of late, for, on the one hand, he assured the Government that he denied the coming of the Mahdi whom his ignorant countrymen expected, and on the other, he told the Maulaw i s that he was at one with them in their belief as to the appearance of the Mahdi. This double-dealing led to his disgrace. Had he been sincere in his repudiation of the traditions concerning the Mahdi, every reasonable Muslim would have praised him for this. But he was throughout insincere and therefore suffered just as I had prophesied. He called me a kafir, a Dajj a l and impostor for my denial of the Mahdi, and has in turn been pronounced a Dajj a l , impostor and a kafir for holding a similar belief. Thus was my prophecy of November 21st, 1898, fulfilled in strict accordance with the condition contained in the words bimithlih a , which meant, as stated above, that the disgrace would be similar to that suffered by the injured party. I expect no other consequences of the prophecy in question (as has already been stated by me in an Ishtih a r dated January 3rd, 1899), and humbly request the Court to give due consideration to the