تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 15) — Page 565
۵۶۳ When the report of the Basic Principles Committee was published the religion-ridden and other bigoted Muslims of Pakistan felt jubilant at their success in having installed reaction on crest of politics in their country and also for having deprived non- Muslims of the fundamental right to get elected to the highest office in the State۔Thus emboldened the reactionaries headed by mullahs started a campaign that the Ahmadis should also be declared as поп- Muslim and therefore a minority in Pakistan۔That is an old demand of the orthodox mullahs۔What is the sin that the Ahmadis have committed to deserve this punishment? They call themselves Muslims and have faith in the Quran, the Sunnah and the prophet۔Only they hold that every age has its prophets and do not believe in the tenet that Mohammad was the last prophet that God had deputed for mankind۔It is not for me to say what is right and what is wrong about this belief۔But there can be no two opinions that in a democratic state every one has the right to believe in what he thinks true and proper۔But for the triumphant mullahs and their violent followers it was enough to kick up trouble۔In the beginning of 1953 Ahmadi۔agitation gained momentum and gigantic proportions within weeks۔20 anti- assum, d Having yielded before Mullahism while framing the Basic Principles Committee's Report became difficult for the Nazimud-Din Government to discountenance, much less suppress, this dangerous, vicious and anti-democratic agitation۔Indeed, some responsible League leaders only fanned the flames of fanaticism by vehemently supporting the principle that "Mohammed is the last prophet" and any one who did not subscribe to this view could not claim to be a