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defenders of Islam than all their contemporaries. 46 47. In America, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement proved to be the first. Muslim organisation which achieved mass conversion of Americans to. Islam and in Europe, the success of the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community 'disturbed the Christian Church which felt threatened by its activities. '48. In the eastern hemisphere; also, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community bore the brunt of defending Islam against Christianity. 49 Infact, the impact of the Community's success against Christianity was so intensly felt in the Far East that the President of Indonesia, Achmet Sukarno 'saluted the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and and extended gratitude. '50. OPPOSITION BEARS EVIDENCE OF TRUTHFULNESS his. The extensive opposition to Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the. Imam Mehdi of the Ummah bears evidence to the truthfulness of his claim since many revered saints and scholars of Islam had foretold that the Imam Mahdi would be oppossed and persecuted by the scholars of his own Ummah. Hazrat Imam Rabbani for instance declared: 'It is most likely that the superficial divines would reject him and regard him as opposed to the Holy Quran and the practice of the Holy. Prophet. '51. Hazrat Sheikh Mohyiuddin Ibne Arabi, was much more precise and predicted: 'When the Imam Mahdi appears, no one will oppose him more than the pseudo jurists and mullahs, for they would be afraid of losing their own position and hold over the masses. " '52 46. Harris, Lyndon P: Islam in East Africa! 47. Panorama: United States Embassy, Pakistan 48. Freidenker, Switzerland 50. National Front News, Indonesia: December 20, 1962 51. Maktoobat: Vol 2. pg 55 49. Gibb, H. A. R: Mohammadanism 52. Fatuhaat Makiyyah 134