The Descent of the Messiah — Page 328
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH Transcript of the notes written by Muhammad Hassan on I'jāzul-Masīḥ and Shamsul-Bāzigha I have received the entire transcript of the notes written by the deceased Muhammad Hassan in his own hand. Since these are the same notes that have been written in the book Saif-e-Chishtiyā'ī, reproducing them here would only unneces- sarily lengthen this book. However, there are five people who are witnesses to the fact that these are the very notes written by Muhammad Hassan on the books Iʻjāzul-Masih and Sham- sul-Bāzigha: (1) The first is Miyan Shahab-ud-Deen of Bhin, whose letters I have already reproduced; (2) The second is Maulawi Karam-ud-Deen Sahib, the friend of Pir Mehr Ali Sa- hib, a person who has no connection with us, who has copied the notes written on the margins of Iʻjāzul-Masih and Sham- sul-Bāzigha with his own hand, and whose letters I have just reproduced; (3) The postcard written by Mehr Ali Shah in his own hand and addressed to Maulawi Karam-ud-Deen Sahib, which has just been reproduced; (4) The father of the deceased Muhammad Hassan, who gave to Miyan Shahab-ud-Deen and Maulawī Karam-ud-Deen Sahib the books containing the handwritten notes of the deceased Muhammad Hassan, and who had these notes copied before his very eyes; (5) The son of the deceased Muhammad Hassan, who took the books out of his house to give them to his father-in-law so that he could have them sold, as has been detailed in the footnote. In these notes, he [Muhammad Hassan] has made many embarrassing errors on account of his ignorance, prejudice, and haste, but it is now useless to blame the deceased. His notes contain such glaring mistakes that if he had not been quick- ly overtaken by death, he would certainly have reviewed and corrected them to whatever extent possible. As to why death 328