Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 100
Murder in the Name of Allah 3. Ahmadis created British imperialism in India; 4. Ahmadis opposed the creation of Pakistan; 5. Ahmadis are opposed to jihad; 6. Ahmadis associate with non-Muslims; 7. Ahmadiyat is a racket in religion's name. . Both the Ahli-Sunnat wal Jamaat (Brelvi) and Deobandi ulema accuse each other of disparaging the Holy Prophets. As we saw earlier, the Jamaati Islami described the Ahl-i Quran as being worse than the. Ahmadis. But the Shias have not been spared either they have been accused of degrading the status of the Holy Prophets by claiming that Ali shared the prophethood with him. . The Canadian scholar, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who visited the subcontinent and closely observed the Muslim society of India and. Pakistan, has accused Muslims of ‘a fanaticism of blazing vehemence'. . In his book, Islam in Modern India, he says:. Muslims will allow attacks on Allah: there are atheists and atheistic publications and rationalistic societies, but to disparage Muhammad will provoke from even the most liberal sections of the community a fanaticism of blazing vehemence. 19. This is an incorrect assessment of Muslim temperament. Prof. Cantwell. Smith has generalised. Actually, it is the Mullahs and the politicallyorientated leadership which recognised: 'that the feelings of a Musulman are never more easily aroused and his indignation awakened than over a real or fancied insult to the Holy Prophet. 20. No doubt the rich and the poor, the intellectuals, the uneducated, the pious and impious have always been united in the love of the Prophetsa and considered fana fir-rasul (annihilation in the name of the Prophet) to be the peak of religious experience. But no Muslim is unmindful that the Holy Prophet's highest experience was the miraj, when he, surrounded by clouds of angels, soared high into the Divine Presence, where even the angel Gabriel has no access. The power-hungry Muslim leadership forgets that the exhortation 'Muhammad is the Messenger of God' is only the second part of the confession of the Muslim faith. The first is: 'There is no God but Allah. '. There is no way to measure love or respect. Lovers and mystics wrote diwans after diwans and finally devoted their lives to trying to express feelings no language could really convey. The mullahs can scan the poem of love, but cannot understand it. It is no mere accident that the founder of the Ahmadiyyah Movement in Islam was named Ghulam Ahmadas. 100