Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine — Page 20
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine [ 20 ] mothers. Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra narrated this incident in his speech and said that: Look! I tell you, taking God as my witness, that a cry immediately issued from my heart when I heard about it: O Allah if a sacrifice of human blood has been decreed for this cause, then I beg that you take my son as a ransom for the son of this lady. Such was the enthusiasm with which the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at fought the jih a d of freedom for Kashmir. You [O opponents of Ahmadiyyat] have come today and are making tall claims. Where were your sons? Where were ‘At a ull a h Sh a h Bukh a r i ’s sons? Where were Maulav i Maud u d i ’s sons, and their followers? They were sitting miles away from the battlefields. Did anybody see them? Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra not only made the announce- ment of jih a d but also sent his sons to Kashmir Front, for which they suffered many difficulties on the war front. Some of them suffered with dysentery, some became weak because of starvation, but Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra never called them back due to these severe illnesses. I remember that some of the children expressed extreme pain, their conditions being critical and the circumstances unfavourable, as well as some suffering with bloody dysen- tery. They wrote that they should be allowed to come back. Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra ordered them to stay back in