Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy?

by Naeem Osman Memon

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Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 327

Mulla Ahmad Raza Barelli, another committed opponent of the. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community declared in his Fatwa: 'It is unlawful to eat the meat of an animal slaughtered by an Ahmadi; to join in the funeral prayers of an Ahmadi: to enter in a matrimonial contract with an Ahmadi or to keep company of an Ahmadi or even talk to one. ”. Hence, as a result of such edicts by the opponents of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community, a total segregation of the Ahmadi Muslims ensued. . They were turned out of mosques in which they had prayed for generations; their children were refused permission to enter madrassas where their ancestors had received education; their daughters, married to non Ahmadi Muslims, were persecuted and these poor women suffered considerable hardships in their matrimonial lives. . And worst of all, even the dead were, not only refused burial rights in. Muslim cemeteries but infact corpses already interned were exumed and thrown out. The official journals of the Ahle Hadith Jammat in India took pride in reporting that: 'The proverb "a hundred stripes for a corpse" is being put into practice here. The situation with reference to an Ahmadi corpse is indescribable. When it is known in the town that an Ahmadi has died in the town, all the graveyards are put under guard with people armed with sticks and the corpse is subjected to all sorts of indignities. A search is made for a coffin but it cannot be procured; grave diggers refuse to did graves; wood and bamboo becomes scarce. Being disappointed in every direction, when the relatives of the dead decide to bury the corpse inside the house, someone informs the Municipal. Authorities and the officials of the authorities appear at the door to frustrate the design. '8. Such was the conduct of those people who claim to be the followers of our lord and master, Hazrat Muhammed Mustapha, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him the pride of the 7. Hissamul Haramain 8. Ahle Hadith 328