Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 28
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama'at and the Muslims of India [ 28 ] reputation of being pious. Therefore, he was reluctant to believe that he could have really done that. People told him that it was a fact. He called for the mullah and said, ‘Maul- a n a Sahib, I feel hesitant in asking this question. I find it hard to believe that you performed a marriage of an already married woman, but that is what I am being told’. The mul- lah replied, ‘You are just accusing me for nothing. First you must listen to my side of the story’. Hadrat Sahib agreed and asked him to tell him what happened. He said: ‘I also believe that a woman cannot have two husbands’. Then he said in Punjab i : ‘But I became helpless. What could I do when the second man put a rupee equal in size to a sparrow on my hand?’ In other words, in principle it was correct that a married woman’s second marriage could not be legally conducted, but when the other party puts some money in mullah’s hand then he becomes helpless! Now this is the same attitude of Jam a ‘at-e-Isl a m i. It had no rela- tionship with the Muslim states in the recent past, where in their estimation the Muslims were pretending to be God. But now, after the discovery of oil in those states, they have become helpless. For them, the matter of religion is differ- ent from the matter of wealth. Seemingly, when the wealth appears, the poor maulav i becomes helpless. Then, Maulav i Maud u d i says: …Neither do we need any protection as a minority, (what strange concepts these Muj a hid i n-e-Islam have) nor do we need national rule on the basis of