Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Planted By The British? — Page 29
Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Planted by the British? 29 the Promised Messiah as , when he used that phrase in regard to his ancestral family, had made absolutely no mention of his Jam a ‘at, but our opponents started using this expression to describe various sects among themselves. It is an amazing instance of Divine retribution that the weekly, Chat a n , Lahore, (15 Oct. 1963) wrote about the B a r ai lwi sect as follows: '[they] declared the British to be the ’ulul amr [people of authority] and issued a fatwa that India qualified as D a rus Sal a m [land of peace], where insurrection against the Government is religiously unlawful. After a while, this khud k a shta pauda of the British became a religious movement. ' Now tell me if there is any doubt here: is this a reference towards an individual or a whole sect is being indicted? Let me quote from the editor of Tufan , in response to this rhetorical question: 'The British employed all the guile and cunning to cultivate the plant of Najd i Movement [ i. e. , the Ahl-e- H ad i th , who are also referred to as the Wahh abi Movement, or Najd i Movement] in India, and then nourished it to strengthen it with their own hands. ' 26 Behold! There are a number of ' khud k a shta pauday ' [of the British] which are cropping up, according to the foregoing! 26 Tufa n , 7 Nov. 1962. [Publisher]