Their Ulema — Page 17
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 17 ] Muslims on the Footsteps of Jews and Christians Now, in view of this background, reflect for a moment how the condition of the Muslims before the coming of the Promised Messiah as continued even afterwards. Wisdom would have it that someone could only come to resurrect this nation. What need was there to kill it? They [the Muslims] were already dead, in both a spiritually and worldly sense. Indeed, what happened was that any sign of life that appeared in them was the result of the advent of the Promised Messiah as. That is to say, some people gained a new life by accepting him, and then there are those who are uniting in opposition to him. Their hearts are divided in hate, but, what little respite they have received, these few breaths they have gained are only a result of their common opposition to Ahmadiyyat. The newspaper, al-Bash i r, in its September, 1925 issue reads: Just study the history of sectarianism among the Jews and Christians at the advent of the Holy Prophet sa , and then compare it with the Islamic ulema of this age. It will be clearly proven that the condition of today’s ulema of Islam is a mirror image of the Jewish and Christian ulema of that age. ( al-Bash i r , Ottawa, September, 1925). . . . . .