Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 350
350 Instances have not been wanting of boys and girls still in their teens who were beaten, turned out of home and disinherited by their parents for no other fault than that they believed in Ahmadiyyat. They cheerfully bore all these hardships and remained steadfast in their faith. There have been instances of Ahmadis who have been either forced to resign from government service or have been dismissed on the false pretence of incompetence through the spitefulness of their Indian officers. Often a solitary Ahmadis in a village of non-Ahmadis is har- assed and put to all sorts of embarrassments. He is abused and given a cruel beating, but when the matter comes to the notice of the police, the poor helpless Ahmadi can find no one to give evidence in his favour and so the police dismiss the case and the persecution continues unabated. Burial grounds are often closed to the Ahmadis and at some places the dead bodies of Ahmadis have been shamelessly disinterred and thrown out to be devoured by animals. Ahmadis are often denied the use of wells, and they have sometimes been forced to travel miles to obtain a supply of drinking water in the hot weather. Cases have occurred where boys and girls, even infants hardly able to walk and speak, have remained without drinking for long periods on account of their being the children of Ahmadis parents. This treatment was accorded to them in a country where the daily temperature sometimes rises as high as 115 ° F in the shade. Ahmadi shopkeepers have been boycotted and crops of Ahmadi farmers have been destroyed. Ahmadi lecturers and preachers are stoned while they are engaged in addressing meetings and