Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Planted By The British? — Page 7
Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Planted by the British? 7 beneficence with beneficence. The Muslims had been living under grave danger under the Sikh rule. These were the observations of the Promised Messiah as. But despite the fact that the Hindus have a much greater social affinity with the Sikhs than with Muslims, the Hindu researchers have conceded exactly the same facts. In this regard, I have selected two excerpts— one from a non-Muslim and the other from a non- Ahmad i Muslim which portray the condition of Muslims when the British came and delivered the Muslims from this persecution. Tuls i R a m wrote in his book, Sher-e-Punjab , (published in 1872) "In the beginning the Sikh practice was to devastate and plunder. They used to plunder whatever they came upon and distribute it among their own people. The Sikhs had great enmity towards Muslims. They would not let Adh a n 7 to be called out loudly. They used to forcibly occupy mosques and start recitals of Garanth in them—calling this practice ' maut kar a '. They were given to heavy drinking. According to eyewitness accounts, when they would come upon an earthen pot, which had evidently been in use of somebody of [non- Sikh] faith, they would lash it five times with their footwear and then use it for cooking their food. In other words, they thought that by 7 Call for prayers. [Publisher]