The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 163
T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH 163 you! Now, regarding the feverish efforts you are making these days to refute and rebuke the Promised Messiah, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, whom you had earlier accepted as the Reformer of this age. And you are so zealous in it that you have ignored even your own article entitled Kufr-o-K a f i r [‘Disbelief and Disbeliever’] published in Ish a ’ah [i. e. , Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah ]. It is the ill consequence of this effort which has now led to the appearance of clear signs of your evil end. Noticing your plight, my heart has melted, out of sheer human sympa- thy. Therefore, in keeping with the injunction 1 ُ صِیْحَۃ َّ یْن ُ اَلن ِّ اَلد [Religion is sincere advice] I wanted to warn you about this fatal malady, merely for the sake of Allah the Exalted, so that God, who is Gracious and Merciful, may per- chance have mercy on you. In this context, there is one revelation of the late Abdullah Ghaznavi that he had received concerning you. I had informed you of it at that time whether you recall it or not. Now I am going to repeat it to you again. It has been my recurring experience that the maulaw i s are impressed very little by the words of their contemporaries, no matter how beneficial those words may be. He [Maulaw i Ghaznavi] is now deceased, and you, perhaps, had even pledged allegiance to him. It would not be surprising if you were to benefit from his revelation. My intention in all this is none other than human sympathy and reconciliation between Muslims. I 1. Jam i‘ Tirmidhi, Abw a bul-birri wa s - S ilah, B a bo m a j a ’ fin-Na sih ah, Hadith 1926. [Publisher]