Perseverance — Page 30
30 – the story of al-haj Rashid ahmad american John Alexander Dowie is depicted in the following two pictures: When Muhammad Abdullah and I visited Zion City, we posed two questions to its inhabitants whom we met on our preaching tour. The first question was, “What type of man was Dowie?” To this question we generally received the reply that he was a pious, holy man. The second question we asked was, “What caused his death?” To this all respondents said that the “poor man worked himself to death. ” This was false and the people of Zion were obviously unaware of the true facts. Much later, in one of my visits to Pakistan, Chot ī A p a , the wife of the Second Khal ī fah ra , asked me why the American mission was not making full use of the contest between the Promised Messiah as and Dowie. On my return to America, I related this conversation to M. M. Ahmad, the Am ī r at the time. He indicated his agreement