The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 2
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 2 incumbent on all of the Ahl-e-Hadith to follow them. And these beliefs are: Belief of Our Opponent Maulvis Regarding the Mahdi Nawwab Siddiq Hasan Khan , in Hujaj-ul-Kira- mah , page 373 and his son, Nur-ul-Hasan Khan in Iqtarab-us-Sa’ah page, 64, mention the belief of the Ahl-e-Hadith regard - ing the Mahdi, the gist of which is: ‘As soon as the Mahdi appears, he will kill Christians to such an extent that those, who were left alive, would no longer have the courage to govern or rule. And all traces [of the desire] to rule will be erased from their hearts and, having been humili - ated, they will run away. ’ My and My Community’s Belief Regarding the Mahdi My and my Community’s belief about the Mahdi and the Promised Messiah is that all those types of Ha - dith , which are about the coming of the Mahdi, are by no means reliable or au - thentic in their entirety. In my view they are susceptible to three types of objections or, in other words, they are not outside three categories. First those Hadith that are fabricated, inauthentic and false. And their narra - tors are open to the charge of dishonesty and false - hood. And no righteous Muslim can rely on them. Second, those Hadith