The Message or A Cry of Anguish — Page 40
40 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS wonderful a thing that many a country, being apprised of it, would also like to live under this blessed Government. Hence, show your sincerity and loyalty towards this blessed Government, and serve it at the time of need. Your hearts must be absolutely pure and be filled with sincerity. Having done all this, in spite of all this loyalty and sincerity, there is nothing wrong with sup- porting the principles of our faith with politeness and civility. Such kind of actions promote, in subtle ways, the glory and gran- deur of the Government, for just as buyers rush towards sellers of good repute so does a Government, whose principles are unbi- ased and liberal naturally become loved and popular, and many foreigners wish they had lived under such a Government. Do you not wish the good-name and praise of this benign Government spread across the world and love for it takes root in hearts every- where? Look, how loyal Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, with all his titles, was to this honourable Government and how deeply he was aware of the policy of this Government and how much he wanted to remain aloof from such matters as were against the wishes of this Government! Nevertheless, he was always occu- pied with religious affairs. He not only answered the allegations of Christian priests but also wrote a rebuttal to a book by a lord based in Allahabad and it was quite a sensitive matter. He also refuted the allegations of Hunter. Then, in the final days of his life, he penned down a partial rebuttal to the book, Ummahātul- Mu'minin, which was published in Aligarh Institute Gazette vol. 6, April 1898. Since he was wise and prudent he never sent, in his entire life, such kind of useless memorials to the honourable Government as the one sent from Lahore. Even now when he was apprised of the contents of the treatise Ummahātul-Mu'minin he