Three in One — Page 213
Now, any intelligent man who studies this photograph with honesty would agree that the disputed word in the context of this Kalimah is Muhammad sa and not Ahmadas. It is an established fact that Arabic calligraphy has adopted numerous forms throughout the length and breadth of the Islamic world and the Islamic credo at the entrance of the Ahmadiyya Central. Mosque at Ijebuode, Nigeria has been written in a traditional style of calligraphy adopted by the people of the local area which requires the first alphabet (* mim, the equivalent of the alphabet m to be lengthened. This system of lengthening alphabets is a perfectly normal practice in the system of Arabic calligraphy adopted by Muslims of this region, as for instance, one also observes the taller than normal lines to teeth of the alphabet sn in the letter Rasul. . In this particular instance, the first alphabet mim or m has thus been first lengthened upwards and then brought down to join the second alphabet Tha or h to make > and when these two are joined to the third and fourth alphabets and dal, it reads i. e. , Muhammadsa. mim. A honest person with even a meagre knowledge of Arabic writing would never express an opinion that the disputed word in the above credo does not represent Muhammadsa on account of the fact that in Ahmad, the first two alphabets | Alif or A and. Cha or h are not joined together but stand separately and hence, the name Ahmad is written thus . This is evident from Abdul Hafeez's own book where he states that the. Kalimah of the Ahmadi Muslims is, God forbid: لا اله الا الله احمد رسول الله. PHOTOCOPY OF ALLEGED KALIMAH OF AHMADI MUSLIMS. WRITTEN IN ARABIC BY ABDUL HAFEEZ. VIDE. TWO IN ONE, P. 22. One would observe that in this Arabic version of the alleged. Kalimah of Ahmadi Muslims, the first alphabet of the name. Ahmad, i. e. , Alif is separated from the second alphabet, Tha. . Now, if the first two alphabets, i. e. , mim and C ha in the 213