Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 21
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 21 ] fully determined to forcefully reject and destroy the Muslims of Qadian… And now it is being said that the Ahmad i s are agents of India. The article continues: …the young men who work in the Security Depart- ment remain on duty for twenty-four hours and they stay on guard day and night… I too was among them. I remember that sometimes we could not sleep for forty-eight hours. Such was the situa- tion. Moreover, the khudd a m were less in number and the workload was tremendous. At times, even if we slept for only a couple of minutes, we felt as if we were committing a sin. It so bothered us to go to sleep. These were the feelings of the young Ahmad i men at the time. It was not only the security of Qadian, but all other Muslim villages in the sub- urbs of Qadian that needed protection. The volunteers used to go from around Qadian for the security of Muslim villages and to fight in their defence. The newspaper further reported: …Due to sleeplessness and fatigue, their health has deteriorated, yet they are ready to face death, not being afraid of it [death]. There is no Muslim mili- tary on duty. The Hindu military and the Sikh police try to scare them; to terrorise them, the Hindu Captain makes rounds with a drawn pistol in his hand…