The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 19
19 medicine to the patient as recovery might have been ordained to occur by using the medicine. In short, to make such an effort is not considered unlawful —neither by the Christians and the Jews, nor by Islam. During the debate at Mudh, Maulaw i Sanaullah also raised the objection that the prophecy regarding the humili - ation of Muhammad Husain, Ja‘far Zatalli, and one of their other friends has not been fulfilled. To me, if such objections had not been raised by these people, how could they have come to resem - ble the Jews? Hence, in my opinion, such objections were inevita - ble on their part. O Wicked man! Maulaw i Muhammad Husain’s article, which goes against his own allegations of disbelief against me, was dis - covered during the proceedings of this very case. Pray tell whether it has not brought disgrace and humiliation upon him—if consid - ered from the standpoint of his scholarly position? It was merely to oppose me that in his periodical, Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah, he declared the denial of the appearance of the Promised Mahdi to be an act of disbelief, and propagated against me that I stood opposed to an established tenet of Islam, and [he said] that the Promised Mahdi would surely appear and the Messiah would descend from Heaven. Later, however, he simply denied the coming of the Mahdi to ingratiate himself with the government. The said copy of his periodical was thus exposed and his own peers issued a edict of disbelief against him. Now tell whether this act of hypocrisy brought him honour or disgrace! The term ‘disgrace’ does not mean only to be thrashed publicly upon the head with shoes; rather, if a person, who claims to be a religious scholar and a pious man is proved hypocritical in