The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at — Page 17
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 17 ] a big issue. However, if one pursues the matter, we find the following proof from the experts. They say that even if someone is known as a Mogul, it does not necessarily refer to the same Moguls who came from Mongolia. Mr. Stanley Pool, in his authentic book on the history of Mogul Emperors, Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, writes: The term Moghul…and came to mean any fair man from Central Asia or Afghanistan, as distinguished from the darker native Indians. The various foreign invaders, or governing Muslim class, Turks, Afghans, Pathans, and Moghuls eventually became so mixed that they were all indifferently termed Moghuls. (Published by T. Fisher Unwin Limited, London, 15 th ed. 1926, p. 197, footnote) There is nothing to be surprised. First of all, it is a mean- ingless objection whether the Promised Messiah as was Mogul or not. The Promised Messiah as only says that: we are called Moguls; I am not aware what the facts are. It is possible that history may be wrong. Even historians acknowledge that the possibility of being mistaken is defi- nitely present. There is no doubt as far as the Promised Messiah as being of Persian descent is concerned.