The Message or A Cry of Anguish — Page 30
30 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS can dry ones be spared? In such a case, will it be even possible for us to wield the pen? So, beware and take this borrowed freedom as a blessing and keep praying for this beneficent Government that has treated all its subjects with justice. It is utterly inappropriate to complain against the priests to the Government. Of course, the doubts, objections and accusations that have been raised and published should be uprooted from their very source, albeit with politeness. We should benefit the world aided by truth and wis- dom, and deliver thousands of hearts from the shackles of doubt. This is the task that we now stand in dire need of accomplishing. It is true that Muslims have everywhere established a number of organisations, claiming their support for Islam. There are three such organisations within Lahore alone. But the question is: con- sidering the fact that the Christians have already published almost one hundred million hostile books and journals, and have circu- lated almost three thousand objections which these maulawīs and organisations were obliged to answer, and in response to which they have been making tall claims in all of their journals that they would address them, what have they come up with by way of defending against these attacks and what useful books have they circulated in the world? They brand me a disbeliever, an Antichrist and an abuser, yet despite having collected thousands of rupees in the name of Islam, what real service have they rendered for it? Perhaps the best outcome of teaching current sciences to the youth would be that they would find some reasonable employ- ment. The same goes for taking care of orphans; in other words, children would be brought up as Muslims and acquire some level of literacy that is about it. But no strategy was devised to save the adults from the tens of millions of traps placed in their way.