Tadhkirah — Page 389
1897 389 Turkish Government was not in a good state. His going back speaking ill of me is further evidence of the coming decline. I also explained my claim of being the Promised Messiah and Mahd i to him and told him that I had been raised by God and that it was nonsense to think as the general run of Muslims think that a blood-thirsty Messiah or Mahd i will appear for the renaissance of Islam. I warned him that: God Almighty has determined that whoever, from among the Muslims, keeps away from me will be cut off, whether he is a King or a commoner. I imagine that all this was most disagreeable to him but none of it was my own thinking. I told him only that which God had revealed to me…. I again wish to emphasise to the readers that I had no desire to meet the vice-consul…. It was at his insistence that I agreed to receive him in Qadian. But Allah the Glorious, a false utterance concerning Whom amounts to being stained with His curse, knows that He, Who knows the Unseen, had informed me in advance that the vice-consul was, by nature, insincere and so it came out. [Announcement of May 24, 1897, Majm u ‘a-e-Ishtih a r a t, vol. 2, pp. 415–418] June 1897 430 [Announcement of June 7, 1897, Majm u ‘a-e-Ishtih a r a t, part 2, p. 423] 430 [Arabic] I determined on the appointment of a Vicegerent and so created A dam, the Vicegerent of Allah, with royal authority. [Publishers]