Truth About the Split — Page 20
20 the Amir summoned him to his presence and personally asked him to give up his new faith threatening him with punishment under the fatwa passed by the Maulawis. Maulawi Abdul Latif remained unmoved and the Amir at last sentenced him to be stoned to death according to the fatwa. When the prisoner was taken to the place of execution, because of the great regard in which he was generally held, the Amir with his chief officers went to the place in order to be present at the execution. The prisoner was half interred in the earth in order to receive his punishment. In that condition the Amir approached him personally and said, "Akhundzada! It is not too late yet. For God’s sake have pity on your own life and upon your wife and children. " Maulawi Abdul Latif answered "Protect me God! How am I to gainsay truth? Life, wife and children, what are they worth, that for their sake I should renounce the truth? You must not expect such a thing from me. I am not in the least afraid to give up my life for the sake of my faith. " Upon this, a shower of stones was hurled upon him and he was most cruelly done to death. This event took place in 1903, and is typical of the difference that exists between the followers of the first and those of the second Messiah. A similar difference may also be marked in the