Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 351
351 disturbances created to prevent the people from listen- ing to them. There have been cases in which Ahmadi wives have been forcibly separated from their husbands and married off to others. Children have been separated from their fathers. Ahmadi women have been beaten and turned out of their homes by their non-Ahmadi husbands. Ahmadi lawyers and doctors have been boycotted. Men belonging to other professions have been similarly persecuted and brought to the verge of destitution. But the Promised Messiah as has infused into them such a spirit and has breathed into them such firmness of faith that they cheerfully bear all these trials, and in defiance of all persecution, they continue openly to proclaim their faith and to prove by their conduct that they put their faith above every worldly object. The teachings of the Promised Messiah as have had such an effect on the members of the Ahmadiyya Movement that although they do not differ from others in their dress and external appearance, they are easily picked out by the people. This is due to the moral qualities which distinguish them from others. Their speech, free from vulgarity and obscenity, their readi- ness to serve others, their self-denial and their abhor- rence of fraud, deceit and similar practices make them conspicuous in all assemblies. Any person who is acquainted with their character can pick out an Ahmadi in a railway train or a public meeting or any other place of gathering, though he may not know him. Even an uneducated Ahmadi is generally found to be intelligent and fairly conversant with religious subjects. The teachings of the Promised Messiah as have