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wives were taken away from them, their dead were thrown into pits without burial garments or funeral rites etc. It was then that the Qadiani liar issued this conciliatory note. 155. What should Hadhrat Ahmad as have done under these conditions if not made arrangements to ensure that his followers are able to perform their religious obligations in peace and security and are able to bury their dead with dignity? Hence, nearly eleven years after the initiation of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community, Hadhrat Ahmadas gave permission to his followers to organise themselves and make provisions of their own although he admonished his Jamaat as late as March 1908 that: 'As the maulvis of this country, due to their bigotry, have generally declared us kafirs and have issued fatwas against us and the rest of the people are their followers, so if there are any persons who, to clear their own position, make an announcement that they do not follow these maulvis who make others kafirs, then it would be allowable to say prayers with them. Otherwise, the man who calls a Muslim a kafir becomes a kafir himself. So how can we pray behind him?. The Shari'ah does not permit it. '56. Yet, the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims continued. In August 1915, a child of Ahmadi parents died at Cannanore in Malabar but his body was not allowed to be interned in a Muslim cemetery 57 while in December, 1918, the remains of an Ahmadi woman of Cuttack in Orissa was disinterred and thrown at her husband's door by the Muslims. 58 This incident was reported with pride by an Ahle Hadeeth journalwhich stated: 'The proverb, A hundred stripes for the corpse, is being put into practice here. The situation with reference to an Ahmadi 55. Wahid. Maulvi Abdul. Ishtihar Mukadat Musailimah Qaadiani, p. 2 56. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. vide. Badr, 24/31 December 1908 57. Al Fazl. 19 October, 1915 58. Ibid. , 14 December, 1918 265