Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 152
152 Mahzarnama days is to somehow have the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at declared to be a non-Muslim minority. To this end, a plethora of such literature is being published which is short on arguments and very long on inflammatory and baseless allegations and unmitigated invective. It entirely consists of a reiteration of the allegations which were publicised in 1952-1953 among the simple-hearted common citizens, to gravely provoke them. Dr. Ghulam Jilani Burq had the following to say, in his book Harf-e-Mahrimana, about this kind of literature: "Whatever literature the scholars of Islam have produced on the subject of Ahmadiyyat, upto now, consists of hardly any arguments but a plenty of abusive language. Who would want to read this literature which is full of foul expletives, and who would want to hear such filthy invective. " [Harf-e-Mahrimaana, p. 12] In 1953, when this filthy invective and foul expletives inflamed the sentiments of common people, then suddenly Maulana Maudoodi tried to take advantage of this situation, and in order to employ this flammable stock for his own selfish ends, he threw a burning match-stick at it which he entitled, Qadiani Mas’ala [sic. The Qadiani Issue]. The purpose behind the publication of this booklet was the same as that of the aforementioned literature, but an attempt was made to make it appear as if this booklet contained relatively less instances of "filthy invective," and "foul expletives," and more arguments. It may have been accepted as true by the simple-hearted common people who do not have the ability to appraise the arguments—just as they are hoodwinked into buying coloured water, mistaking it for a health-giving elixir, at the hands of publicly-hustling apothecaries—so, perhaps, they may have received this booklet too as a well-reasoned presentation, but the judgement of some well-known non-Ahmadi