Summary

The following points below are summary from this week's Friday Sermon:

• After reciting Tashahhud, Ta‘awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) said that he would continue narrating incidents from the life of the Promised Messiah (as) which exhibit the lofty standards of his truthfulness.
• His Holiness (aba) said that once, a person named Dr Henry Martyn Clark charged the Promised Messiah (as) with attempted murder. The Promised Messiah (as) stated that this was an extremely dangerous case in which he could have been sentenced to death. The Promised Messiah (as) said:
• The evidence he mustered seemed thorough, so much so that even Maulvi Abu Sa’eed Muhammad Hussein Batalvi, an archenemy of this Jama‘at, appeared as a witness and did his utmost to establish the case against me. The case was heard by Captain Douglas, the Deputy Commissioner of Gurdaspur, who is now posted probably at Simla. The case was duly heard and completed, and all the witnesses against me were produced with great fanfare and clamour. In the circumstances, not even the best of lawyers could say that I would be acquitted.
• When the case reached a stage when the prosecution and my opponents believed that the magistrate would commit the case to the Sessions, Captain Douglas told the Police Superintendent that he had a hunch that the case was a frame-up. He couldn’t believe that such an attempt was ever made and that the defendant sent someone to murder Dr Clark. He asked the superintendent to investigate the case himself. This was the time when not only were my opponents busy plotting against me, but those who claimed that their prayers were heard and accepted were tearfully soliciting God to punish me.
• At this, he came out with the truth. He confessed that he had been coerced into making his earlier statement and deposed that Mirza Sahib had never sent him to murder anyone.
• The Captain was overjoyed at this statement and sent a telegram to the Deputy Commissioner that he had solved the case. The case once again came up for hearing at Gurdaspur. Capt. Le Marchand was sworn in and recorded his affidavit. I could notice that the Deputy Commissioner was visibly pleased that the truth had come out. But he was also furious at the Christians who had given false evidence against me. Addressing me, he said that I had the right to file a suit against them.
• His Holiness (aba) related the impressions of a lawyer who represented the Promised Messiah (as) in this case. The lawyer said that he had represented many people in various court cases and had observed for himself that even apparently pious people would change their testimonies in lieu of legal counsel. He said, however, he had only ever observed one person who remained steadfastly attached to the truth, and that was the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as). He said that he had advised the Promised Messiah (as) to deliver a prepared response; however, it contained falsities.
• The Promised Messiah (as) replied that the real difficulty would be displeasing his God by uttering falsehood. It is recorded that the Promised Messiah (as) said this with great passion. The lawyer said that in this way, the Promised Messiah (as) would not benefit from his legal advice. The Promised Messiah (as) replied by saying he never once depended on his legal advice, for his depended only on God. He had hired the lawyer as a necessary and required means, and because he had known the lawyer to be straightforward and truthful.
• His Holiness (aba) said that the charge levelled against the Promised Messiah (as) had been that he had sent a man named Abdul Hamid to kill Dr Henry Martyn Clark. The Promised Messiah’s (as) lawyers had advised him to say that he did not know and had never met Abdul Hamid. The lawyers said that if the Promised Messiah (as) said this, then he would certainly be acquitted; otherwise, he would certainly be indicted. The Promised Messiah (as) said that he would never abandon the truth, even if it meant that he would be sentenced to death.
• His Holiness (aba) said that there was a Hindu man who said that he had known the Promised Messiah (as) since his childhood, as they were the same age. He said that from his childhood, he had known the Promised Messiah (as) to be truthful, trustworthy and pious. The Hindu man said that he felt as though Parmeshwar had come down and adopted the form of the Promised Messiah (as). 
• His Holiness (aba) said that a man who was travelling missed his train. At the time, there was a great deal of opposition against the Promised Messiah (as) that had spread far and wide. This man thought that since he was near the Promised Messiah’s (as) village, why not go see the Promised Messiah (as) for himself. And so, he went to meet the Promised Messiah (as), and immediately upon meeting him, he realised that all those who opposed the Promised Messiah (as) were certainly wrong, because the man he was seeing before him could certainly never be a liar or false.
• His Holiness (aba) said that another person relates that he too had heard widespread opposition to the Promised Messiah (as) and thought that if all the clerics deemed him to be false, then he must certainly be false. However, he came across some Ahmadis who advised him to read a book written by the Promised Messiah (as) titled, Izala-e-Auham. Upon reading this book, he felt all his doubts being removed, and so he went to meet the Promised Messiah (as).
• His Holiness (aba) quoted the Promised Messiah (as), who writes that when one adopts truthfulness, that truthfulness becomes a light, and that light protects them from all sorts of difficulties and hardships. 
• His Holiness (aba) prayed that may Allah enable everyone to realise this reality and remain steadfast upon the loftiest standards of truthfulness.