The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at — Page 19
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 19 ] called Ab u Lahab. Not many people know his real name, but he was the uncle of the Holy Prophet sa. Ab u Lahab’s mission in life was to dissuade people from seeing the Holy Prophet sa , claiming that he was a boy of the family and that Ab u Lahab knew him well. The Quraish [Prophet’s own tribe] would also try to mislead people by telling them that the Holy Prophet sa was (God forbid) a tyrant, a sorceror, and a madman. They said he was (God forbid) a magician, a liar, and an impostor. These opponents, while levelling accusations against the Promised Messiah as did not realise that they were repeating the same allegations, which were made against the best among men, Hadrat Muhammad sa. A reference to the speech of Hadrat Mirz a Bash i r-ud- D i n Ma h m u d Ahmad ra [Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra ] is made in this White Paper. What Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra was telling us was that there was a man from the family who used to sit along the pathway and try to deceive people, but no one would listen to him. It is reported that he was once sitting and saying the same things when two simple farmers were coming to Qadian. He stopped them and started mak- ing his normal comments. Since he looked like a respect- able person, they listened to him very attentively. When he finished, one of the farmers grabbed him and said to his companion, ‘We used to hear that Satan sits in disguise on the path of Prophets’. [He then said,] ‘This person is that Satan. God’s word is fulfilled that a Satan sits on the path of