Political Solidarity of Islam — Page 3
'j"udgment -which has affected their faculty of <lis'ting'uish~ ing between good and evil, The Ahrar activities against the Ahmadiyya Community have been carried on for some time past without interruption or abatement of zeal. In the Conference that was held at Qadian last October great stress was Iaid on the fact that the Ahmdis should not be regarded as Muslims. To raise such a question at the present time, when the Muslims are already in a minority in India and are passing through extremely difficult times and their very existence is in danger, does ·not at all speak well for the intelligence and political foresight of the A hrar leaders. . A few years ago at a political meeting of the ~uslims held at Patna under the presidency of the late Maulana Mohd. Ali the same question was raised. A Maulvi from Bihar il) the course of his speech said that the Hindus had derived great strength from the existence of the Sikhs as a distinct and separate politi. cal entity inasmuch as the latter being in a minority demand weightage; and in a lighter vein the Maulvj suggested that this accession of strength. to the Hindus' political power could be countermanded by excluding the Ahmadis from the main Muslim Community arid hy asking them to demand, as a minority, reprei;;enta· tioh in excess of their numbers. The said Matilvi wasz however, severely taken to task by Maulana Muhamma. d Ali who sternly told him that such fl. suggestion whicq was opviously at variance with Muslim inte. rests, if carried in to effect, would add to the disr. uption of the already hopelessly divided ranks of the Muslim Com. munity. But then this question was raised in a province like l3ihar and the president of the meeting was a per~oil of Maulana M uhafuin~d Ali's calibre and political foresight and now it 4a. s been raised in the Punjab. and py people like Maulvi Zafar Ali, Ch, f\faal Haq, Maulyi Hal?ibur Rahman and Syed At~ Vllah Shp. h Bokhari. These gentlemen seem tq think that by demanding our exclusion from the Muslim Community they are damaging our interests. But in rto conceivable fuahrier can our interests suffer. We are. said to be 56,000 at present. . But though grossly under-estimated we were not 58,000 even at the tinie of