The Message or A Cry of Anguish — Page 22
22 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS to opium. Those who accuse me of initiating this harsh language are extremely unjust and mischievous. How would I reply to this except to say: لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَاذِبِينَ Anyone who would like to examine this matter faily would have no difficulty in understanding that my first ever book published throughout the world was Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah whereas abu- sive books by Reverend Imad-ud-Din, harsh and vulgar writings by Indarman of Moradabad, incendiary treatises by Kanhaiya Lal Alakhdhari and Dayananda's Satyarth Prakash which is replete with foul, abusive and blasphemous language had already been published in the country. The Muslims of our country were as inflamed by these books as a piece of iron which is placed in fire. But, having initiated a rational debate in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, I extinguished their fury and redirected their passions just like an adept physician who diverts the attack of a substance from vital organs to the peripheries. Despite the fact that Barāhin- e-Ahmadiyyah was written in response to those Christians and Aryas who had reached the utmost extent in blaspheming and abusing our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, it was still penned with extreme politeness and decency, and except for some necessary and appropriate counter attacks that are essential for every debater, in order to reduce his opponent to silence, no harsh expression was used in the book. Furthermore, suppose if one was used, even then no fair-minded person, who 1. The curse of Allah be on the liars. [Publisher]