Bright Lights of the Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 49
BR IGHT LIGHTS OF THE AHMAD I YYA MOVEMENT 49 THE MIRACLE OF RABWAH (Ruqaiya Sharif) In 1947 there was the partition of India. Most of the Muslims left India and came to live in a new country called Pakistan. The Partition was a very hard time for the Muslims because they were treated very badly by the non-Muslims in India. They were made to leave their homes and their former lives and become refugees in a new place. They were crammed on trains until they overflowed. As they departed and on the way to Pakistan they were tortured and abused by the non-Muslims. While on the evacuation trains, Muslims were brutally attacked and murdered. When the trains stopped at stations on th e way, non-Muslim mobs attacked them. Upon arriving in Pakistan, almost all who had survived were injured in terrible ways. People had their hands and feet cut off and children with their eyes torn out. Those who tried to cross the border to Pakistan on foot were, if possible, treated worse. Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad was the Khalifa at the time. He, himself, waited in Qadian, a town in India where the Promised Messiah was born, until the majority of Ahmadi Muslims had been evacuated. When hear - rived in Lahore, Pakistan, the Khalifa ordered that the Ahmadi Muslims were to assist the non-Muslims who were leaving Pakistan on their way to India. The Ahmadis who had just been brutally treated by the non-Muslims now showed them love and mercy in their moving out from the new Pakistan. Not one Ahmadi during the partition killed, injured or harmed a non-Muslim in any way. Through their trials and hardships, the Ahmadi Muslims showed strength and faith. The Muslims now began to build a new place for themselves and started