Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 123
123 is made for a coffin but it cannot be procured, gravediggers refuse to dig the grave, wood and bamboos become scarce. Search is made for a place for burial and none is found. Being disappointed in every direction when the relatives of the dead person decid e to bury the corpse inside the house someone goes and informs the municipal authorities of this design and they appear immediately on the scene and frustrate the design. (Ahle Hadees, as quoted in Al - Fazal of February 9, 1918) 3. In April 1928, the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Cuttack stopped the burial of the small child of an Ahmadi even in the graveyard which the Ahmadis had established in a plot obtained from the government for the purpose, and the local officials ren dered no assistance to the Ahmadis in carrying out the burial. (Al - Fazal, 13 April 1928) 4. On 16 March 1928, the daughter of Shaikh Sher Muhammad, an Ahmadi of Bhadrak, Orissa, could not be buried in the graveyard on account of the opposition offered by non - Ahmadis who had gathered in large numbers and were bent upon using violence to stop the b urial. In the end the father arranged to place the dead body in a coffin and buried it in the compound of his house. (Al - Fazal, 27 April 1938) 5. On 29 January 1934, an Ahmadi died in Calicut, Malabar and non - Ahmadi opponents made a great