Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 136
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 136 Neither Martyrdom nor Sin A person stated that an Ahmadi brother was killed in the frontier region. He was serving in the army. When the people of the frontier region came to assassinate his officer, he was on guard duty, so they killed him first. Can he be termed as a martyr or not? The Promised Messiah as said: Martyrdom is the name of that death which is for the sake of religion. All other personal interests for which man strives—at times succeeding or failing—sometimes even losing one’s life for it, we do not term it martyrdom nor do we declare it a sin. 1 3 March 1905 (Before Z uhr Prayer) Some Insightful Points Ha fi z Ghulam Ras u l of Wazirabad presented Maulaw i Muhammad Ibr a h i m before the Promised Messiah— H ujjatull a h 2 —peace and bless- ings be on him. The aforementioned maulaw i sought some explanations from the Promised Messiah as. His responses are recorded below: 1. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 11, p. 2, dated 31 March 1905 2. Lit. ‘the Proof of Allah’, an honorific title of the Promised Messiah as [Publisher]