Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 124
124 propaganda in the town that the dead body should not be permitted to be buried in the Muslim graveyard. Thousands of excited opponents collected around the house of the deceased and created so much disturbance that it became difficult for the Ahmadis to en ter the house or to emerge from it. With great difficulty at about 5 p. m. one person was sent to the graveyard to spy out the situation there, and on his return he reported that thousands of people armed with sticks etc. had gathered at the graveyard and w ere proclaiming that they would under no circumstances permit the dead body of the deceased Ahmadi to be buried in the grave - yard. The local officials were approached, but they pleaded their helplessness in the situation. Finally, on the following day, at 10. 30 p. m. , the corpse was buried at a great distance from the town in a plot of land that was subject to inundation in the rainy season. (Al - Fazal, 25 February 1934). Hundreds of such instances can be cited but considerations of space forbid further citation. The indignities offered to the dead bodies of Ahmadi martyrs in various places in Pakistan during the disturbances in 1974 are fresh in the memory of all. In view of all this does it lie in the mouths of our opponents that they should consider us blameworthy in that we do not join them in the funeral prayers of non - Ahmadi deceased? This question has another aspect. Non - Ahmadi divines argue that as Ahmadis do not join non - Ahmadis in prayer services they thereby put themselves outside the pale of Islam. Now there is no