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Muslims. And why should it not be when, according to Maulvi. Noor Muhammad Sahib Qadri Naqshbandi Chishti, Hadhrat. Ahmadas routed the agents of disbelief. He stated when the fate of Muslims stood at the crossroads: 'Maulvi Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani stood up and challenged the churchmen and their community and said, "Christ, by whose name you swear, died like a human being and 'I am the Jesus whose advent is predicted. " In this manner, he made things so hot for the Nazarenes that they were hard put to make good their escape. By this very method he put to rout the padres both in India and England. 167. Abdul Hafeez has a very superficial knowledge of history or else out of rancour and jealousy he perverts the facts to delude the masses. Had that not been the case, he would have acknowledged that Hadhrat Ahmad as was instrumental in saving true belief and believers from disbelief and disbelievers personified. Hence, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, an eyewitness to the state of affairs during that era observed that: 'just about when the religious passion of Christians was about to cure their hereditary rancour of some twelve to thirteen centuries by achieving its objective, i. e. , blowing the light of. Islam which alone enlightened true reality but was found to be an obstruction in the way of Christendom, the defence of. Islam began in which Mirza Sahib played a part and it routed the Christians. 168. Christian disbeliefs were not the only ones against which he strived nor Christians the only disbelievers whom he confronted and routed. According to the Maulana, Hadhart Ahmadas: 'performed a very special service to Islam by crushing the 67. Chishti, Maulvi Noor Muhammad Qadri Naqshbandi. vide. Maulvi Ashraf Ali Thanvi,. Preface to the Commentary of the Holy Quran, p. 30, edition, 1934 68. Azad, Abul Kalam. Vakeel, Amritsar, May, 1908 23