Life of Ahmad — Page 642
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 642 me and the vile attacks made on me. Muhammad Husain himself has admitted in his Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah (Vol. XVIII, No: 5, pp. 154- 155) that Muhammad Bakhsh, Jafar Zatall i , represents him (Muhammad Husain) when he indulges in filthy language against me. Muhammad Husain has often triumphantly reproduced the scurrilous language of Ja‘far Zatall i in his own Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah. Thus writings which are really the outcome of his own brain are given by him as quotations merely to escape the arm of the law. But what still more clearly renders the charge against me quite unsustainable is the fact of the fulfilment of my prophecy. Before the notice, in which I had been informed of the charge against me, was served on me (which was done on or about January 7th, 1899), I had published several Ishtih a rs , one of them as early as November 30th, 1898, stating that my prophecy had been fulfilled, and that Muhammad Husain had met the same kind of disgrace as he had exerted himself to bring on me. In some of these Ishtih a rs I expressly declared that I contemplated no further consequences of the prophecy in question. While the condition contained in the words Bimithlih a limited the disgrace prophesied to the particular kind suffered by the party injured, all further doubts were removed by my giving