Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 15
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 15 ] Hadrat Sahib! If you do not accept this task as its President, it will not succeed! (Lahore, April 5th, 1965; p. 12; column. 2) It is a long story about how Ahmad i s rendered outstanding services for the protection of Indian Muslim causes. Kash- mir fully remembers all those ser v ices. From the [Ahmadiyyah] Jam a‘a t, eminent scholars as well as illiterate folks, rich and poor alike, all used to go to Kashmir at their own expense to serve the Muslim cause most earnestly, and it never became a burden to them. They used to distribute literature and were victimised most severely under the tyrannical rule of the R a j a h of that time, and were even imprisoned. To help their Muslim brothers who were pena- lised, groups of attorneys used to go to plead their cases. It is a very long story and many volumes covering hundreds of pages have been written on this subject. It is impossible to write the history of Kashmir without mentioning the glorious Ahmadiyyah services. At present, just to refresh your memory, I submit some extracts from the writings of Muslim newspapers and magazines. Maul a n a Syed H ab i b Sahib, editor of the newspaper Say a sat, in his book Ta h r i k- e-Qadian [ The Qadian Movement ] writes: To help the oppressed people of Kashmir, only two organisations came forward… The very title of Syed H ab i b’s book tells that it is written by an opponent of Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at. Yet, in those