Deception and Lies Against Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at
Their Ulema
These verses come to life in the context of the hard times faced by the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at these days. The
2. Compassionate among each other.
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Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at is being attacked verbally and in writing; Ahmadis are being tormented through physical abuses, by being thrown into jails, and killed mercilessly. This so-called White Paper truly represents the negative image depicted in these verses in the Holy Qur’an. The false nature of blame and allegations leveled against the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at in the White Paper is unbelievable. After describing the 1953 riots, a few conclu- sions have been drawn. But, first, the following analysis of the Jama‘at has been offered in the White Paper. It started at the instigation of a colonial power, and the issue became more and more complicated with the passage of time. It not only created bitterness and division among Muslims of South Asia, but also among the Muslim nations of other countries, particularly from Africa. (Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam, p. 1)
Describing the cause and effects of the 1953 riots, the so- called White Paper further writes: This problem started the poison of hatred and sectarianism in the political life of Pakistan. During this time, the Qadianis began sending delegations to foreign countries, where they started to establish their preaching centers. They built preaching centers in Afr ican, Europ ean, and South and Nor th American countries. But they had no numerical strength anywhere, while their numbers in Pakistan
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were relatively more where they were fairly strong and well-established. As a result, they were easily checked in other countries. (Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam, p. 38)
This passage is a masterpiece of deception and lies. To fully analyse this would take too long. First, let me tell you briefly who was responsible for the rioting and hate-mon- gering during the 1953 [anti-Ahmadiyyah] riots. Why did not the representatives of this government think of looking up the Munir Inquiry Commission Report3 and read the analysis presented by the honourable judges? The judges of this court are held in high esteem in the legal community all over the world. Justice Munir was not an ordinary judge. Similarly, Justice Kiani was a judge of a very high caliber. There is not enough time to present the entire report here. But, even if we examine a few excerpts on this subject, it would make a very interesting presentation. Due to time constraints, I will relate only one excerpt to you. You can easily judge from this as to who the real culprit was behind this rioting, slandering, and spreading animosity among the people, as well as which community was behind it. The respected judges write: The ‘Mazdoor’ is an Urdu newspaper published from Multan under the editorship of Sayyad Abuzar
3. Report of the Court of Inquiry, constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953.
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Bukhari, the son of the prominent Ahrar leader Sayyad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. [He is the represen- tative of the current elite leadership of Ahrar.] The main topic to which this paper devoted its attention was the anti-Ahmadiya movement, and in its issue of 13th June 1952 it published an article in the course of which it gave such a vulgar description in Arabic script of the head of the Ahmadiya community that decency does not permit us to explain it. [The judges are writing about what led to the 1953 riots and who the perpetrators were.] If these words had been uttered in the presence of a member of the Ahmadiya community, we should not at all have been surprised if the result had been a broken skull. (Report of the Court of Inquiry, constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953, printed by the Superintendent, Government printing, Punjab, 1954, p. 87)
This is the opinion of Muslim justices, who have extensive judicial experience; theirs is no ordinary opinion. In a few short words, they have summarized this movement as to who was spreading dissension and who was being patient. These respected judges add: The words used reveal a shockingly depraved taste and constitute a most disrespectful ridicule of the language of the Holy Qur’an and the language of the Holy Prophet. (Ibid.)
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If 1953 is forgotten or one does not desire to look at the decision rendered by the Report of the Court of Inquiry of 1953, then just look at what is going on in Pakistan today. The fact of the matter is that tens of millions of rupees are collected as zakat and employed to make a special group of so-called ulema [a class of Muslim scholars], whose only function is to abuse Ahmadis. Instead of educating com- mon people and spreading the religion of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa, the only task of these so-called ulema is just that they should abuse Ahmadis. The only services to Islam that are being asked of them are to lie, to malign Ahmadis, and to incite others to murder and rob people of their homes and properties in the name of Islam. In conclusion, this is what the government is using the so-called ulema to do as the hallmark of service in Islam. Despite these things, an attempt is being made to con- vince the world that, in fact, it is the Ahmadis who are sow- ing the seeds of hatred in society; that [supposedly] the whole of Pakistan is a victim of Ahmadi aggression, and pretending that these poor ulema have been very patient and have done nothing against Ahmadis, they question how long their ‘suffering’ continue. This is the picture the government is trying to draw of their innocence, but the world is not stupid. We have tape recordings in our posses- sion of the maulavis in which they have used filthy language and have incited people to violence. Whatever filth is cur- rently spawning in Pakistan is seeping out as well. When
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their people come out of Pakistan, they make speeches in the same way they have done against Ahmadis in Pakistan. We have complete tape-recordings as to what is going on in Mauritius and their speeches in Norway. In spite of this, they think that the world is stupid enough to believe that Ahmadis were spreading dissension whereas the pitiable non-Ahmadi Muslims were very patient and tolerant, and despite Ahmadi aggression, the non-Ahmadis have not reacted against them.