Political Solidarity of Islam — Page 10
10 used by them. Our definition of Kujr as compared with theirs is like a tiny atom as compared with the sun. Then why should they fume and fret over our calling them K affrs ? It is being emphasised nowadays that the Ahmadis call non-Ahmadis Kaftrs. If this allegation is honestly made, then let the Ahrars come forward and prove that it is we that took the offensive in this respect. The fact is that it is they that began the battle and they were the first to call us Kafirs. They are morally bound to find out who threw down the challenge and took the initiative in issuing Fatwas of Kufr. Even now they are daily saying and writing in their newspapers. that Ahmadis are Kajirs. Can they prove that any Ahmadi newspaper has been guilty of thus calling the Ahrars Kafirs? He who calls another person a Kafir without rhyme or reason hurts his feelings and provokes a quarrel. We never do that. It is only when we are asked by a person as. to what we think of him and we are compelled to give an answer that we say we take him to be a Kafir in the sense in which this term has been explained above. Although our answer in. that case is always in reply to their question but even then they resent it and seek to pick a quarrel. What answer possibly can we give to a person who is dark-coloured when he asks. our opinion about his. complexion except that he is dark-coloured and not fair. What would you call such a person who picks a quarrel on that account? This inexplicable attitude of these people reminds me of ah interesting incident which sometime back occurred to a doctor in the Army. He told me that he was asked by the wife of an officer who was a :Major in the Army, how old he thought she was. The said doctor was in a fix. He knew that English ladies felt offended if even in compliance with their own request they were told their correct age if that happened to be a bit advanced. He therefore tried to dis_suade the lady from asking him that awkward question but she w:ould accept no e:iccuse. and insisted on. knowing her age. The doctor then computed within his mind that being the wife of a Major sh~ must at least be 36 or 37 and he thought that she would be satisfied if he told her that $he was only 27. But she. flew. into a. rage when ,the poor: