Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 375
GENUINE ERROR CONSTRUED AS. EVIDENCE OF MEAGRE KNOWLEDGE. No reasonable person can ever deny that during the course of any publication, either the author or the copyist, is extremely likely to commit some genuine errors which may not be detected until after the publication of the book. Such errors have, one must admit, on some occasions appeared in the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's literature also. . But such genuine error, an unbiased person would have no hesitation in admitting, cannot, in any sense of the word, be considered to be the result of an author's personal lack of knowledge. . Ironically however, the adversaries of the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community are totally uncompromising when such minor mistakes are made in the Ahmadiyya Muslim literature. For instance, in one of. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's publications, such an error was made wherein it was stated that the apostle of God, peace be upon him, was born before his father's death 13 whereas it should have been stated that his blessed father died before our beloved Prophet's birth. . Unfortunately, instead of accepting this genuine error as an error which it infact is, such sly anti Ahmadiyya authors as the Sheikh ul. Fibber, Ehsan Ellah Zaheer, capitalise on the error to allege that Hazrat. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's knowledge was, God forbid, faulty. 14. One has to admit that one is initially inclined to ignore such pettiness on the part of the anti Ahmadiyya authors. However, one cannot refrain from warning these contentious mullahs that if they adopt such an uncompromising attitude towards genuine mistakes in the Ahmadiyya. Muslim literature, then they may yet find themselves trapped in their own snare a snare much more serious than the one in which their uncompromising attitude proposes to trap the Ahmadiyya Muslim authors and scholars. . For instance, speaking of the Ummah of our beloved lord and master, 13. Paigham e Sulh 14. Zaheer, E. E: Qadiyaniat. An Analytical Survey: pg 136 376