The Qadian Diary — Page 65
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 51 Air Mail Letter sent by the Nazir, Umoor-o-Amma, Central Ahmadiyya Organisation Lahore, to the Hon’ble Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Home Member, Government of India, New Delhi. (Dated Lahore, the 4th of October 1947). Your recent speech at Amritsar was certainly reassuring and should help to restore confidence. Encouraged by this speech I have the honour to bring to your kind notice the following points about Qadian (District Gurdaspur) Headquarters of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Movement:— 1. In spite of any allegations that might have reached you to the contrary I wish to convince you that the Ahmadiyya Community is a peaceful and law-abid- ing body, one of whose fundamental principles of faith is to co-operate with any lawfully established Government that might be in power. In view of the above principle we have repeatedly declared and even now declare in this respectful representation that as Qadian has been placed in the East Punjab the best efforts of its Ahmadi population will be direct- ed to prove even more peaceful and more law-abid- ing citizens of the Dominion than the Hindus or the Sikhs. In spite of these declarations, however, I am painfully constrained to inform you that the local administration is pursuing a ruthless policy of driving the Ahmadies out of their homes and Headquarters. There have been many cases of loot, vexatious searches, arrests, murder and even rape at Qadian, and the local officers are openly reiterating their demand of getting Qadian vacated as soon as possible. We know that final justice lies in the hands