Truth Prevails — Page 129
( 129 ) “Due to the negligence of venerable members of the Sadr Anjuman, the entire membership of the Movement found itself constrained to tender a pledge of bai’at to Maulvi Nurruddin; and in the grief and confusion over the death of the Founder, the guidance he had embodied in his last will and testament ( Al-Wasiyyat ) has been thrown behind the back. ” The author of this tract, who claims that there is respect in his heart for Hazrat Maulvi Nuruddin, pens down another insult: “A man who is a great scholar of the Holy Quran, and the Hadith, with a rich experience, on which Shar’ie basis did he fly into a rage? The accused is not told what crime he has committed. He has not been charge-sheeted in an arbitrary and biggoted judgement, characteristic of the Sikh rule, the Editor of the Paigham-i-Sulha , and other people connected with the journal, are being brought into disgrace by means of verbal pronouncements, and stuff sent into print in the Al-Fazl. Is this the sense of fairness and justice being engendered in the heart of the Ahmadiyya Community?” In another place the worthy gentleman says: “Worship of the Pir, in a period of bare five years, has deprived the Community of moral courage. ” We need not waste our time over these two tracts. The fullest answer to all points raised has been given in ‘ Ba’z Khas Karname’. But it is even more deplorable that Maulvi Mohammad Ali adopted the same method of anonymous pamphleteering against Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II. He also attacked us on the point of Pir Worship, which, however, is no wore than a sign of frustration at his own failure, and at the brilliant success gained by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II. Mr. Faruqi has reproduced one sentence from the address of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, in the Annual Gathering at Rabwah in 1956: “Mian Sahib even went to the point of such arrogant boastfulness as to claim that even where anyone raised a justifiable question against him, even he would draw the wrath of heaven upon himself. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 42). “Mirza Mahmud Ahmad went so far as to say that even a person who criticised him justly would be punished. ” (Truth Triumps, page 42). The intention of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II was only to bring out, that the tendency to raise questions and objections, was not always a very good and useful tendency, since in many cases it becomes an unreasonable habit; and