Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at and the Palestinian Muslims — Page 18
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and the Palestinian Muslims [ 18 ] my trousers be removed. A struggle to get them off ensued. Five or six policemen succeeded in removing my trousers. They hung me upside down and started striking me on my bare back. God Almighty still granted me the ability to utter the kalimah. Next a few more policemen gathered and inquired, ‘Tell us about your Mirz a ? Where was he born, and where did he die?’ They were abusing me in the most vile man- ner possible. They uttered vulgarities at the Promised Messiah as. This verbal abuse carried on for half an hour or so, but I kept on saying Istighf a r. Apart from my back, they whipped my head and my shoulders for a countless number of times. Is this the concept of ‘serving’ Islam and the kalimah in Pakistan? Does this not remind you of the scorching deserts of Arabia where Hadrat Bil a l ra was dragged for this very crime? Smoldering pieces from a furnace were placed on the chest of those who uttered the kalimah. A bed of burn- ing coal was placed on the ground beneath them. The ooz- ing fluid from the resulting blisters would extinguish the cinders. In Pakistan today, events comparable to the excru- ciating attempts to obliterate the kalimah in the past are being repeated. The horrific irony is that it is the workers of a ‘Muslim’ country who do it today. None could be happier than Satan, for today he is making those who associate themselves with the name of Muhammad sa repeat actions that the worst enemies of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa once perpetrated.