Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 343
! ! 343 presented as a teaching which permits either the killing of or stealing from anyone who is a Hindu, Sikh or Christian, would any person accept such an Islam ? No one would ever do so ! And it is o n this basis, they say that the Promised Messiah as has abrogated Jihad [ fighting against an enemy]. These days , m aul v i s have gathered together to proclaim that since Islam enjoins Jihad and these people [ Ahmadis ] are opposed to it, their Jam a‘a t should be destroyed for having broken the sword of Islam. Why are they so bent up on destroying and persecuting Jama'at Ahmadiyya? It is because the Promised Messiah as has done away with oppression and dishonesty. The people of Kabul killed Haz rat Sahibzada Abdul Latif ra because he spoke against killing the British. Likewise , there was another man who became the only Ahmadi in his family, and his father and relatives beat him before every meal, as regularly as one eats curry for food. He was beaten every day in this manner. Once his father entered w hile his brothers were beating him, and when he screamed, “I am dying , ” the father felt pity in his heart and asked the sons to leave him alone. T his situation continued for two years, solely because his family was angry at him for converting to Ahmadiyyat. Similarly, there was a businessman from Narrowal [a city in India] who suffered greatly after accepting Ahmadiyyat. You are already aware of the situation in Kabul and what has passed there. Besides that , when some Ahmadis fro m Lahore and other cities went to perform tabligh , hundreds of people pursued them , and dogs were set upon them. Some of the women who accepted Ahmadiyyat or who inadvertently married non - Ahmadis write to me that they are called names and are persecuted. Non - Ahmadis create problems for their Ahmadi colleagues in offices and refuse to give th em leave of absence to attend Jalsa , or they even dismiss them from their jobs. Additionally, e ducated Ahmadi candidates are denied jobs , simply on the basis of the m being Ahmadi. Then there have been some Ahmadi men who were boycotted by their wives and children an d they suffered greatly for many years until the wife accepted Ahmadiyya t. Moreover, they misinform authorities that we are anti - government ,