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far more worse than idolators and maggians. ² 28. The Jamaat e Islami, which has for many decades spearheaded this campaign of vilification against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is particularly condemned by their own colleagues in this allegedly united. Alami Tahafuzze Khatamae Nubuwwat front. The Executive President of the Madrassa Khadda, Karachi states in relation to the leader of the. Jamaat e Islami, Maulvi Abul Ala Maududi: 'There is no doubt that he is amongst those who have been led astray. . I strongly urge all Muslims to keep themselves aloof from his beliefs and ideology. They should not regard him as a servant of Islam and should not be under any illusion about it. The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, declared that before the appearance of the Dajaal, thirty other Dajaals would be born to pave the way for him. As I understand it, Maududi is one of these thirty. Dajaals. '29. This brief discussion establishes the fact that Muslims have always denounced and condemned other Muslims as unbelievers and apostates since the first century Hijra. Do these pronouncements carry any weight?? Would the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community care to certify that these few fatwas of apostasy which have been mentioned above and which merely represent the tip of an iceberg 30 were justified and are valid ?. And if not, then why should their fatwas against the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community be valid ? Whether the critics of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community care to admit it or not, the fact remains that those followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who participated in his funeral prayer were Muslims in the best Islamic tradition and hence the claim of these adversaries to the effect that no Muslim offered the funeral prayers of the Promised Messiah has absolutely no substance in it. 28. Muzanb, Abhoh al: Akhram e Shariat Mukamal: Pt1. pg 14 29. Sidiq, Maulana Muhammed: Haq Parast Ulema ki Maududiat Say Narazghi ke Asbab: pg 30. Shahid, Dost Muhammed: Chosen Saints and the Bigoted Mullas 97 272