The True Nature of the Mahdi

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Page 38 of 81

The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 38

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 38 is sincere, and who the hypocrite, in the following man - ner. Both parties should write and print those beliefs in Arabic and Persian, so that they can be published in Ara - bian cities, like Mecca and Medina etc. And should hand over that printed material to the Government, so that it could publish it, as it deems fit. In this way, the one who behaves hypocritically, his reality will be disclosed. Because he will by no means set them out with honesty, and to disclose them will seem to him as amounting to his death. Again, it will be impossible for him to publish them, and to circulate such an announcement in Mecca and Medina will be worse than death for him. Though I have been writing such books in Arabic and Persian for the last twenty years and have been distributing them in Arabian and Persian cities, yet, even now, in order to comply with the demands of the proposed test, I am writ - ing, as an appendix to this Announcement, a disserta - tion, both in Arabic and Persian—to be published—in which I will set out my peaceful beliefs and my views regarding the inauthenticity of some Hadith about the Mahdi and the Messiah and my sentiments regarding the British Government. In my view it is necessary that if Muhammad Husain, who is called the leader of the Ahl-e-Hadith , holds, like me, the beliefs that promote peace and reconciliation, should, having printed his an -