Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 41
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 41 ] the magistrates asked someone else to bring the ladder and made someone else climb up it to erase the kalimah. At that moment the bewailing outcry in the Ahmadiyyah mosques was so heart-rending that it seemed as if everything they loved was being ruined and no one had survived. At that time suddenly they found out that even the Magistrate himself was crying and sobbing, and before the hammer had hit the letters of the kalimah , the Magistrate ordered the man to come down and said they would not dare erase the kalimah. They were ready to bear all the consequences if the Government decided to take action against them. Now, it is amazing to see similar incidents taking place. Whenever such an event takes place, I am reminded of Hadrat Mas ih -e-Mau‘ u d’s as revelation that: ‘the opinions of the people living on this earth shall change, and their thoughts shall be revolutionized. ’ Although, with the Grace of God, the Muslim hearts do respect the kalimah , and most of the time they are not ready to cooperate with the Government; but still on some occasions extremely repulsive things are taking shape. On observing those events, fear strikes the heart lest God punish this country because of these oppressors. Once, a policeman dragged a student out of a bus because he was bearing a kalimah badge. He was taken to the police station, brutalized, and fined five hundred rupees. The student told them [the police] that he did not