The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 19
Part I—Debate with the Maulvis of Kabul 19 You all have two gods. You fear the King as you should fear God. My God is one and I have no fear of the King. Then he was asked if he believed whether or not Jesus as would return. Shahzada Sahib ra said that the Holy Quran declares him to be dead and attests to the fact that he will not return. At this, the maulvis started to curse at him and said that there is no doubt now that he truly is a disbeliever. Doctor Abdul Ghani was appointed as the arbitrator of the debate and happened to be a staunch enemy of Shahzada Sahib ra. He, along with all of the maulvis, decided that the papers of the debate should not be shown to the King, and instead, it should simply be announced that Shahzada Sahib ra had lost the debate. They decided that they would only inform the King that Shahzada Sahib’s ra beliefs are false and that they have issued a fatwa declar- ing him to be a kafir. They knew if the general public were to get a hold of the papers with Shahzada Sahib’s ra responses, people would begin to turn towards Ahmadiyyat. As a result, the papers were not presented to the King. An eyewitness from the debate mentions that Shahzada Sahib’s ra arguments were in line with the Holy Quran and Hadith. The maulvis had nothing except for a few quotes. They were una- ble to defeat Shahzada Sahib ra because they did not have the same level of knowledge as him. The leader of the debate, who was also the judge of Kabul and Mufti, confessed that their knowledge of the Holy Quran paled in comparison to Shahzada Sahib’s ra. At the conclusion of the debate, Shahzada Sahib ra was brought to the King’s castle, followed by a mob of people as he passed through the market. He was then presented in front of