The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page xii
Foreword During 1890’s Maulvi Muhammad Husain of Batala, a staunch enemy of the Promised Messiah as , became extremely active in his enmity towards him and the front on which his unbridled enthusiasm was shown was nothing but the effort that he made to misguide the British Government regarding him and to impress on it that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as was disloyal to the Government and a rebel against it. As he could not achieve this objective without stooping to falsehoods and meanness, he exactly did that. The lies that he told to the Government were twofold: First, he knew, and had previously admitted, that the Promised Messiah as was a loyal subject and was not a rebel, and yet to the Government he told a bare-faced lie that he was so; second, in order to be in the good books of the Government, he informed it that he neither believed in violent Jihad, nor did he believe in a Mahdi that would shed blood; and to compound his lies he shamelessly submitted to the Government that the beliefs of the Promised Messiah as were diametrically opposed to his own.