Political Solidarity of Islam — Page 15
1$1 tha. ,t Ahmadis are not Muslims and- that therefore they shoqld- be excluded, from the Mm1lim Community? Is it b~~ause by supporting his riyal we came under Sii: Zafar: AJi's displeasure that we deserve tp be expelled f. rom the Muslim Community? If the Ahrars. honestly believe that they are· the· real representa. tives of the 8 crores of the I. ndian Mus-. lims then why do they seel~ to exclu,de us from: the. Muslim Community? When they know that the entire Muslim Community is with them and we are in- no constituency in a majority, then instead_ of excluding· us from the Mttslims, they shou,ld, on the contrary,· have insisted on our inclu,sion in them, as being every- where in a minority there was clearly no possibility of any Ahmadi being returned to the Legislature while if created into a separate minority we would be entitled· tp at least one seat in the Legislatu. re. Their insistence 1:1pon our separation from the Muslim Community cJearly demonstrates that the Ahrar leaders. are con- vinced in their heart of hearts that the 8 crores. ofr Muslims are not with them and that instead of support,. ing them in the matter of election they would give us· their support, By demanding our expulsion from the Mμslim Community they wish to deprive us of the benefit, which they are afraid,, we would derive if we_ Qontinued, to remain within the Muslim Community •. If the Ahrars thi11k that the whole Muslim Community is with them, then why are they afraid of our remaininK within it. If, for instance, the Sialkot constituency, a,s, they claim, is solidly with them, then all possibility of Ch. Zafarullah Khan or for that matter of any other Ahmadi candidate being returned to the Council from that constituency or any other constituency, entirely d;isappears, and therefore instead of demanding our exclusion they ought to have insisted on our remaining in the Muslim Community and thm;1 to ha,ve hepefited by one seat which in case of our separati9n. - tbey would have lost. This opposition, therefore, is not at all based on hone,sty. The Ahrars may, if they so desire, exert their utmost against us but in our' opposition they should not at least part compan_y with honesty and moral obligations. But what is now actually happening is this that a man, say from Jamm1;1, at first, addresses me as the Kha. lifatul l\([asih and;