Truth About Ahmadiyyat

by B. A. Rafiq

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Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 122

122 By way of illustration here are some instances of the sort of treatment which has been accorded by non - Ahmadis to the dead bodies of members of the Ahmadiyya Movement: 1. On 20 August 1915, a small child of K. S. Hasan, an Ahmadi of Cannanore, Malabar, died and the local ruler directed that as the local Qazi had issued a declaration against the Ahmadis, that they were disbelievers, the dead body of the child could not be in terred in any graveyard of the Muslims. The child could not be buried that day and at the end of the following day was buried in a plot of land more than two miles distant from the Muslim graveyard. (Al - Fazal, 19 October 1915). 2. In December 1918, the wife of an Ahmadi of Cuttack, Orissa, died and the Ahmadis buried the dead body in the Muslim graveyard. When the non - Ahmadis learnt of this they disinterred the body and carried it and threw it at the door of her husband’s house. (Al Fazal, 14 December 1918)The situation in Cuttack might be appreciated from the following extract from Ahle Hadees, a non - Ahmadi paper, which said: The proverb ‘A hundred stripes for a corpse’ is being put into practice here. The situation with reference to an Ahmadi corpse is indescribable. When it is known in the town that an Ahmadi has died all graveyards are put under guard with people armed with sticks and the corpse is subjected to all sorts of indignities. A search