Bright Lights of the Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 16
16 BRIGHT LI GHTS OF THE AHMADIYYA MOVEMENT Promised Messiah and so the King decided to have Abdul Rahman killed. Abdul Rahman was strangled to death and so the first innocent goat was slaughtered. A few years later, Sahibzada Abdul Lateef decided to go to Qadian. Once he was in the company of the Promised Messiah his love and devotion for the Messiah of God grew deeper and deeper, and his heart became filled with the light and love of God. On his return to Afghanistan he also wanted to share this light with the King by telling him what he had seen at Qadian. But once again some evil-minded people turned the King against the Promised Messiah and the Sahibzada. The Sahibzada was ordered to be killed by stoning. The King asked him to give up his belief in Ahmadiyyat and the Promised Messiah and thus save his life. Do you know what the Sahibzada said? He said that Ahmadiyyat was the true Islam and he could not go back on the truth. He would rather die than give up his belief and go against the truth and the Prophet of God. He was brutal- ly stoned in front of a large crowd. The second innocent goat was slaughtered. Hardly a month after the stoning, the people of Afghanistan were struck by a terrible illness called cholera. Not a single home was spar ed. Death and destruc- tion hit all, rich and poor alike. The people correctly feared that God was punishing them for the murder of these two innocent ones. The deaths of these two martyrs were sad ones indeed for all Ahmadi Muslims. Their courage and love for God and His Prophet had touched all their hearts and the fulfillment of the Promised Messiah's prophecy (made many years earlier) was a very great sign of his truth. QUESTIONS: 1. What prophecy of the Promised Messiah was fulfilled in this story? 2. From what country did the martyrs come? 3. What are their names? 4. What is a martyr?