The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at — Page 11
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 11 ] father of Maulav i Z afar ‘Al i Kh a n Sahib, who knew the Promised Messiah as in Sialkot, when the alleged incident occurred. Talking about that time period he states: We can say on the basis of eyewitness accounts that even in his young age, he was a righteous and pious divine. After work [his employment in Sialkot], he spent all of his time in the study of religion. He would rarely socialise. ( Newspaper Zam in d a r , May 1908; as quoted in Badr , June 25, 1908, p. 13) Maulav i Muhammad H usain Bat al a vi writes: The author of Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyyah , according to the observation and experience of friends and foe, is— 10 —a follower of the religion of Hadrat Muhammad sa and a righteous and truthful person. ( Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah , vol. 7, p. 9) With regards to the question of Prophet working as an employee, these Deoband i and Ahl-e- H ad i th accusers themselves acknowledge and accept that a Prophet can work as an employee of a non-Prophet. In the Holy Qur’an, Almighty Allah has clearly mentioned the employment of the Prophet Joseph as. Moreover, there is no logic to the statement that a Prophet cannot work as an employee. Why can he not? They are unable to offer any argument for this 10. This Arabic phrase is an affirmative statement by which the author states that, ‘I affirm what I say and Allah is witness to it. ’ [publisher]