Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 136
136 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 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 Messiahas 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 Zuhr Prayer) Some Insightful Points Hafız Ghulam Rasūl of Wazirabad presented Maulawi Muhammad Ibrāhīm before the Promised Messiah-Hujjatullah²-peace and bless- ings be on him. The aforementioned maulawī sought some explanations from the Promised Messiahas. His responses are recorded below: 1. Al-Hakam, 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]