Life of Ahmad — Page 658
POLICE HARASS AHMAD as as 658 the bubonic plague. All these papers are herewith attached for perusal. Another instance of the same is that in Dr. Clark’s case when Maulaw i Fa d al D i n, Pleader, asked my permission to put a certain question which would have disgraced Muhammad Husain, who was a witness in the case against me, I did not allow it. Maulaw i Fa d al D i n would bear testimony to this. Qadian Feb. 13th, 1899 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Rais of Qadian, Gurdaspur District. ' Ahmad as returned from Pathankote on 15-2-1899. Muhammad Bakhsh made all kinds of boasts and his attitude was openly offensive. (He died of plague later). The Magistrate seemed to have been influenced by him and did not mean well towards Ahmad as. He was given the impression, as shown by a note of his on the file, that Ahmad as had ignored the warning given to him by his predecessor Col. Douglas. In view of this it was contemplated that an application be made to the Chief Court for the transfer of the case, but nothing was actually done. Ahmad as wrote and published a booklet in Urdu entitled H aq i qatul Mahdi on 21-2-1899. On its title page are written the words: 'As the Muslims of India entertain different beliefs with regard to "the coming Mahdi" and especially the nature of his appearance among the Muslims: according to some Muslims he