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Comment: Instigation to burn Ahmadiyah mosques
June 22, p
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em>June 22, p. 8: Referring to Ahmad Ghozali’s letter published in The Jakarta Post on June 14 under the heading “All the Muslims must be saved” in which he instigated burning Ahmadiyah Muslims’ mosques, considering Ahmadis non-Muslims, allow me to share my views. The concept of a subordinate prophet after Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is a well-established fact since the times of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) based on the Holy Koran and the Hadith (the sayings of the Holy Prophet). (By Fazal-e-Mujeeb, Jakarta)
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Ahmadis are also known as Kadyanis, created by the British to divide the Muslims. Ahmadis helped the British rule in India while the Jinnah, Subhas Chadra Bose and Ambedkar were fighting for the freedom of the people and India. Ahmadis consider Muslims non-believers.
The sect was born in East Punjab, now part of India, but after partition, they came to Pakistan as Muslims, but thanks to the late former prime minister of Pakistan Bhutto who declared Ahmadis (by a majority vote in the national assembly) non-Muslims.
Muradali Shaikh
The UK
Muradali, Jinnah left Indian politics after attending the second Round Table Conference in 1932. Jinnah was persuaded back to India by Abdur Raheem Dard, an Ahmadi missionary in London. A three-hour face-to-face talk with Mr. Jinnah persuaded him to return to India.
The Sunday Times in London (April 9, 1933) carried a report of a reception that was held by the imam of the Dard Mosque in London, where Jinnah frankly acknowledged the fact that, “the eloquent persuasion of the imam left me no way to escape”.
Jinnah visited the mosque on several occasions and made his famous speech in its grounds when he decided to return to India to represent the Muslims of the subcontinent.
Sardar Shaukat Hayat, on page 147 of his book The Nation that Lost its Soul, mentions that Jinnah requested him to “go to Qadian and meet Hadhrat Sahib and request him on my behalf for his blessing and support for Pakistan’s cause”.
In 1944, a group of mullahs asked Jinnah to declare Ahmadis non-Muslim. Jinnah replied, “Who am I to declare non-Muslim a person who claims to be a Muslim”.
Jinnah appointed his trusted friend Sir Zafarullah Khan, a devout Ahmadi, as the first foreign minister of Pakistan.
Laiq Ahmad
Sydney
