Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 26
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama'at and the Muslims of India [ 26 ] Regrettable Conduct of Some So-called Muslims Yes, I say, a worse tyranny can be committed. It is a fact that if an outsider commits cruelty, one feels it, but not to the extent that one feels when the tyranny is being committed by one’s own people. When the hands that are expected to help and the tongues that are expected to give comfort are used against their own people, then it hurts far deeper than the wounds inflicted by an enemy. I want to tell the News- paper Zam in d a r’ s contributing writer that they were the people who caused that kind of hurt. The pain inflicted upon the Muslims by Majlis-e-A h r a r and Jam a ‘at-e-Isl a m i was far more hurtful than that given by the Hindus or the Sikhs. If they have forgotten, then let me refresh their memory by presenting a few statements of non-Ahmad i Muslims concerning Jam a ‘at-e-Isl a m i. But before I do that, let me first present a statement made by Maulav i Maud u d i himself. In the most crucial phase of the Pakistan Move- ment, at a time when the Muslims were going through the most terrible time facing a situation of life or death, this was the time Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at was fully engaged in offering sacrifices. But what was Maud u d i Sahib’s opinion concerning the Movement that was strug- gling for Pakistan? What was his fatw a ? Maul a n a Maud u d i writes: I cannot be happy if ‘Abdul la h [meaning the Muslims] assumes the position of God’s sovereignty