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they were prepared to give preference to the servant, Hadhrat. Imam Abu Hanifa's Th opinion over the master, Hadhrat. Muhammadsa. Hence, they exclaimed: 'We take refuge in God. This man has the audacity to belittle the Upholder of the Shariah and insult the supporters of Abu. Hanifa's jurisprudence. He says, "Who is Abu Hanifa?" and only a few moments he claimed to be a follower of Abu. Hanifa' 15. The Chief Ahnaf Mufti and his Ahnaf colleagues finally managed to excite the public at large and they all began to shout: 'Oh! He is insulting Imam Abu Hanifa. This man is a backslider. He is most insolent. '16. Maybe, this episode of history might give Abdul Hafeez an indication of whose footsteps he seems to be following and one also hopes that he is not proud of his spiritual Ahnaf predecessors who caused such distress to one of Islam's most respected and venerable personalities, the Sultan ul Aulia,. Hadhrat Nizam ud Din Auliah. . The crux of the matter is that Jihad is not mentioned in this statement of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas in Ayyamus Solh because it has not been mentioned in the definition of either. Iman or Islam by the aforementioned statements of the Prophet of Islam, Hadhrat Muhammadsa. But this does not mean that. Hadhrat Ahmadas did not consider Jihad to be an integral and also an essential part of the Islamic faith. The only difference between his concept of Jihad and that of Abdul Hafeez's is that of interpretation. While the latter believes that it only means the yielding of the sword to shed the blood of innocent people and coerce them into believing in Islam, Hadhrat Ahmad as believed that 'God has set forth clearly that there shall be no compulsion 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid 225