The Message or A Cry of Anguish — Page 45
THE MESSAGE OR A CRY OF ANGUISH 45 of Religions. All these books except Ayyāmuş-Şulh, which will soon be published, have already been published. If someone needs to look into any of these books as he prepares his proposal I can send them to him on condition that he return them after one or two weeks, as I do not know how many people would ask for my books apropos to this task. This subject now stands concluded in all its details and I hope that everyone to whom this request has been sent would give his treasured opinion to me within the period of two weeks. When I finished writing the above lines I came across an issue of the Paisa Akhbar dated 14 May 1898 which contained cer- tain untruths against me and my opinion regarding the memo- rial of the Anjuman-e-Himāyat-e-Islām, the style of writing of 1. The editors of Paisa Akhbar and The Observer have attempted to charge me in their papers of sowing the seeds of enmity and hostility between the Hindus and the Muslims, for I prophesied the death of Lekh Ram, and at his death the Hindus were provoked, and thus it lead to suspi- cions. If such an allegation proves anything it is only that these editors out of certain hidden motives bear me such malice and rancour that they could not resist it even in religious matters, and finally overwhelmed by selfish passions, they turned away from supporting Islam and dis- charging their duties. I have repeatedly written in my books in detail and Lekh Ram himself has admitted in his writings that he himself was responsible for the prophecy made with regard to his death. In the days when Lekh Ram was bent on hurling abuses at Islam, that on each and every occasion his mouth spewed invectives, he in his excitement, took the initiative of coming to live in Qadian for a month in order to have a debate with me. I did not go to his district or village for debate, nor did I take the initiative of corresponding with him. He, driven by his own barbaric passion, visited me in Qadian. All the Hindus living here would testify that he stayed in Qadian for almost twenty-five days and not for a single day restrained himself from hurling abuses and curses.